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‘Run for your life’: NWT residents flee wildfires, find refuge in Alberta

August 17, 2023

A fast-approaching wildfire has prompted an evacuation order for all of Yellowknife, which has the city's more than 20,000 residents rushing to get to safety. Heather Yourex-West reports on how Alberta is stepping up to help evacuees, how communities are already filling up, and the anxiety over what displaced people will return home to.

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