The fire this time
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The north woods are on fire:
Hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada’s Northwest Territories have prompted emergency declarations and the evacuation of the capital city of Yellowknife by road and air.About 20,000 residents in Yellowknife are being urged to get out of the way of fast-moving flames as more than 230 fires char the territory and smoke creeps south, impacting air quality in the US. Yellowknife accounts for about half of the total population of the remote territory, which sits north of Alberta and east of Yukon.
“We’re all tired of the word unprecedented, yet there is no other way to describe this situation in the Northwest Territories,” Premier Caroline Cochrane said in a statement Wednesday night.
It’s been a little less than two years since the house we moved out of a few weeks earlier burned to the ground, along with the rest of the neighborhood, in the Marshall fire. As fortunate as we were, that experience drove home how terrifying these kinds of events can be. And they are going to become much more common in the years to come.