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The N.W.T. government says it's working to ensure food and other key goods keep flowing to remote communities amid the ongoing wildfires and evacuations of key regional hubs.
Eighty-five prisoners from jails in the Northwest Territories are being transferred to Alberta s correctional system as wildfires bear down on Yellowknife one of the first times in Canadian history a natural disaster has forced a large-scale movement of prisoners between jurisdictions.
YELLOWKNIFE - Residents of the Northwest Territories capital and some neighbouring communities have been ordered to evacuate the area by Friday because of an encroaching wildfire.