Residents Evacuate As Canada Battles Wildfires

CANADA – Canadians evacuated Yellowknife on Thursday night as firefighters battled to prevent wildfires from reaching the remote northern city.

People lined up outside a local high school waiting to be taken to the airport to board evacuation flights to the neighbouring province of Alberta.

Some 10 evacuation planes ferried about 1,500 people out of the city on Thursday and about 22 flights were due out on Friday, while scores of people left via road, authorities said.