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The fire prompted evacuation orders and even airlift plans for thousands of people. Officials issued evacuation orders for Yellowknife and the nearby First Nations communities of Ndilo and Dettah.
An evacuation order was lifted for the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife on Wednesday, three weeks after a nearby wildfire forced the city’s 20,000 residents out of their homes.
(Reuters) -Canadian fire crews on Thursday battled to prevent wildfires from reaching the northern city of Yellowknife, where all 20,000 residents are leaving by car and plane after an evacuation ...
Fourteen properties in Baynes Lake in the southeast were evacuated on September 9. [48] There was a brief evacuation of about 150 homes outside Grand Forks on September 25 due to a fire in bordering Washington. [49] On September 29, an out-of-control fire near Christina Lake similarly forced the evacuation of 42 homes and about 84 for several ...
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2025a of the tz database. [2]
On the evening of August 16, evacuation orders were issued for Yellowknife, N’dilo, Dettah, and Ingraham Trail, affecting an estimated 22,000 people. [79] On August 19, 87% of Yellowknife was evacuated by 6:58 am (ET), with only 2,600 of the original 20,000 remaining, 1,000 of which were essential workers. [139]
Thursday's evacuation of Yellowknife was by far the largest so far this year, said Ken McMullen, president of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and fire chief in Red Deer, Alberta.
The two extreme time zones on Earth (both in the mid-Pacific) differ by 26 hours. Standard Time Zones, as of January 2, 2024 In the following list, only the rightmost indent of a group of locations is meant to indicate the area observing the offset; the places above and to the left are meant solely to indicate the area's parent administrative ...