Officials give update on conditions in Canada’s Northwest Territories as residents began fleeing an approaching wildfire Thursday in long convoys.
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Residents of the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories were ordered to evacuate by land and sky as a wildfire closes in on Yellowknife.