In Yellowknife, the capital city of Northwest Territories of Canada, fire crews and water bombers are trying to save the city of about 20,000 people from a massive wildfire that has forced an evacuation order for the entire population.
Images showed snaking queues of hundreds of people waiting to sign up for evacuation flights, while fires burned on either side of the only highway out of the city.
It is now about 15 km away from the city and authorities expect the fires to reach the outskirts of Yellowknife by the weekend. Among them was the Gour family from the town of Hay River. When the Gour family received an alert on their phones while camping out, the family was left uncertain about where their son, Liam, 13, was going to land as he was returning from a cadet trip in Whitehorse in the neighbouring territory of Yukon."The only thing that I had in mind was that I had the kids, the dogs, and we had each other and just to get out of there.
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