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With wildfires posing an imminent threat to people and property, the City of Yellowknife declared a state of local emergency during a special meeting on Monday, but the GNWT is not following suit.

The armed forces will be deployed on Tuesday after the federal government approved the territory’s request for support “during this unprecedented wildfire season,” stated a Monday news release from the GNWT.

Work on repairing the Mackenzie Valley Fibre Link has yet to begin as the fires in the Sahtu region are too dangerous for workers to approach.

The City of Yellowknife laid out its efforts to create 100-metre wide fire breaks in several key areas as it held a meeting on Monday afternoon to address wildfire concerns.

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Wildfires have caused “significant structural damage” in Enterprise, the Patterson Road area and Paradise Gardens, near Hay River, the Town of Hay River confirmed on Monday morning.

A wildfire burning 12 kilometres outside of Inuvik is holding at 35,583 hectares in size, but NWT Fire says it expects it to move away from Inuvik in the coming days.

Transportation authorities in the Northwest Territories say the highway out of Fort Smith has closed due to wildfires.

Residents of a second town near the Alberta-Northwest Territories boundary were ordered to evacuate to safety Sunday evening due to encroaching wildfires, with a new fire meaning the only route out for one of the communities was by air.