Wildfire burned 3 homes in Behchokǫ; another 'extremely challenging' day ahead, N.W.T. Fire says
Behchokǫ is located at 62°50'N on the northernmost tip of Great Slave Lake, NWT.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/responders-flee-behchoko-fire-1.6918179Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
Always shitty when fires are so close to communities. I was just talking to someone about how many people that live there lived there their entire lives - some of them (the older ones) don't speak English. This is all they know.
The 2000 people left town 2 days ago and went mostly to Yellowknife and Fort Providence.