VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Firefighters battling wildfires in western Canada received help from reinforcements and milder weather Saturday, after the nation’s worst fire season on record destroyed structures, fouled the air with thick smoke and prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of residents. Flames were being held at bay 15 kilometers…
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns on the mountainside above a lakefront home in West Kelowna, Canada on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Firefighters battling wildfires in western Canada received help from reinforcements and milder weather Saturday, after the nation’s worst fire season on record destroyed structures, fouled the air with thick smoke and prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of residents.
At a Saturday evening news conference, Shane Thompson, the province’s minister of environment and climate change, said the fires near Yellowknife had not grown very much in the past few days thanks to breaks in the weather. Yellowknife has been a virtual ghost town since a majority of the city’s 20,000 residents started to flee following an evacuation order issued Wednesday evening, officials said. Long caravans of cars choked the main highway for days and those who couldn’t take to the road lined up for emergency flights out of the city. The last 39 hospital patients were flown out Friday night on a Canadian Forces plane, officials said.
“We knew it was only a matter of time,” said Morritt, who had been following media updates and satellite images of the approaching wildfires. Eby told reporters Saturday that the situation was “grim” and warned that the “situation changes very quickly.”
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