Two weeks after evacuation orders started being issued in the province of Alberta, about 12,000 evacuees are still out of various communities
Thousands of residents in Western Canada and the Northwest Territories remained out of their homes Thursday as out-of-control wildfires continued to burn.
In the N.W.T., about 3,500 people evacuated Sunday from K’atl’odeeche First Nation and the neighbouring community of Hay River, N.W.T.“Help isn’t going anywhere,” Shane Thompson, territorial minister of environment and climate change, told a media briefing Thursday.The fire, which was last estimated at nearly 18 square kilometres, is suspected to have been human-caused. Officials said there have been no reports of damage in Hay River, but 15 buildings have been damaged on the reserve.
“We’re looking ahead to some difficult days of working on this fire,” he said, adding the outlook for the wildfire season across the territory is severe. Bryan Chartrand, the agency’s director of land operations, said it could be a week before evacuees can return home.“We’re looking at at least a week plus … unless we get a large rain event that is not forecasted right now.”
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