Nearly all 20,000 residents of Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories, have evacuated, while thousands more in neighboring British Columbia have fled, too.
, an independent internet radio station and online newsroom based in Yellowknife. He and his small team have been tirelessly pushing out text alerts to residents throughout the evacuation — even as they themselves evacuated — trying to get information to people in an area where cell service and resources are spotty.
It's not just people who are being displaced by the flames — wildlife is also being forced to relocate. On Friday,Yellowknife is one of eight communities in the Northwestern Territories evacuated in the past week,, calling it"unprecedented." She said that this was Yellowknife's first evacuation. South of Yellowknife, closer to the border with the United States, a surreal wall of flames hugs the picturesque Okanagan Lake in West Kelowna, British Columbia. At night, the hillsides are alight with the blaze, a stark backdrop to the city of a more than 30,000, as firefighters from all across the province battle to hold the fire at bay.
Speaking at a press conference Friday morning, Brolund looked weary, saying that several structures had been lost.
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