Canadian wildfire triggers race to evacuate entire city of Yellowknife

[bookofjoe]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/17/canada-wildfires-yellowknife-evacuation/

[toomuchtodo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowknife

https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Yellowkni...

[sillywalk]

It's the territory's capital, with almost 50% of the population and the only hospital.

~20k+ people, minus those evac'd by air, down one two-lane highway out of town to evac centres >1000k away.

[bookofjoe]

https://archive.ph/9Q08s