Thousands of people are scrambling to evacuate the northern Canadian city of Yellowknife as flames from another blaze in the country’s record-breaking wildfire season bear down on people’s homes, threatening North America’s second fire disaster in as many weeks.
Many hours south of Yellowknife, intense wildfires on Friday were also threatening the western Canadian city of Kelowna, a thriving tourist hub of 130,000 people. Evacuations have been ordered there too, while fire fighters battle to save homes.
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau convened an incident response group on Thursday, and said his government would continue to “urgently mobilise” resources.