On the evening of Aug. 16, due to rapidly moving wildfires, an evacuation order was issued for the entire city of Yellowknife. Thousands of residents faced a long, stressful drive on the only road out of the city. The goal was for as many people as possible to flee one of the largest cities in Canada's North before the deadline for safe exit of Aug. 18 at noon Mountain Daylight Time.
Culturally appropriate services. If that happens, it could be weeks if not months before 20,000 residents can return. Other locales will have to absorb Yellowknife's entire population for extended periods.
In the immediate short term, the needs of the evacuees will shift from temporary relief to requiring more permanent services. Evacuees will benefit if some semblance of"home away from home" can be provided. That hospitality includes culturally appropriate evacuee hosting. At the time of the 2016 fire disaster at Fort McMurray, the largest visible minority group was the Muslim community. Today, there are stillWhether it was fully understood during the chaos of the 2016 fire evacuations or not, thousands of people had specific cultural needs that became evident in evacuation centers.
As days turned to weeks, challenges for Muslim evacuees emerged. The disaster occurred during the start of Ramadan, and scheduled mass feeding times in large shelters conflicted with traditional sunrise-to-sunset fasting during Ramadan. Evacuation centers hosting Fort McMurray's evacuees were unprepared forLike Fort McMurray, Yellowknife is a culturally diverse community.
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