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Residents of Yellowknife in Canada's far north raced Friday to evacuate ahead of a midday deadline.

Residents of Yellowknife in Canada's far north raced Friday to evacuate ahead of a midday deadline as wildfires bear down on the remote city and other parts of the vast country.

Residents of Yellowknife in Canada's far north raced Friday to evacuate ahead of a midday deadline as wildfires bear down on the remote city and other parts of the vast country.The evacuation of Yellowknife is the second time an entire Canadian city has been cleared due to wildfires since 100,000 residents of Fort McMurray in Alberta's oil and gas producing heartland were forced out in 2016.

The town of Fort Smith in an orange haze as wildfires sweep Canada's far north - Copyright AFP JEFF PACHOUDAndrej Ivanoc, with Michel Comte in OttawaResidents of Yellowknife in Canada’s far north raced Friday to evacuate ahead of a midday deadline as wildfires bear down on the remote city and other parts of the vast […]

Wildfires on Friday bore down on Kelowna in western Canada -- a city of 150,000 -- while efforts to clear Yellowknife in the far north turned it into a ghost town as scorching flames burned ever closer. The two fronts in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories are just the latest in a summer ..