Alice Twa and Kai Wilson·
"Everybody being displaced wore heavy on my heart." Gracyn Tanche is coordinating a group of volunteers helping Fort Simpson evacuees in Yellowknife.
Parks Canada says its staff are preparing in case wildfire smoke begins to severely affect visibility along Highway 5 from Fort Smith to Hay River.
Open fires have been banned on almost all public and private land across the North Slave and South Slave – a rare region-wide step for the NWT.
Helicopters and ground crews returned to action against Fort Simpson's wildfire on Tuesday, while new satellite images showed the Wrigley fire's burn area.
"A challenging situation we'll be managing for the long term." Rain has bought fire crews north of Wrigley some time to work out how to handle wildfire FS015.
Though fire FS016 burned almost up to Fort Simpson's doorstep on Monday, that turns out to present some big opportunities to fire crews. Here's their plan.
