Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to visit fire-ravaged Northwest Territories
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to visit areas ravaged during a record wildfire season in the Northwest Territories today. Trudeau is scheduled to meet with local leaders in Hay River and visit sites affected by recent wildfires.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to visit areas ravaged during a record wildfire season in the Northwest Territories today.
Trudeau is scheduled to meet with local leaders in Hay River and visit sites affected by recent wildfires.
A fast-moving wildfire in August tore through the hamlet of Enterprise, about 40 kilometres south of Hay River, destroying nearly all of the community's homes and structures.
Burnt trees, scorched homes and melted vehicles remain throughout the community of about 100 located along a highway north of the Alberta boundary.
Around 20 people have returned, but many remain elsewhere in the territory and other parts of Canada after their homes were destroyed.
The territory saw nearly 70 per cent of its population displaced during the fire season, including a three-week evacuation order that forced around 20,000 people to flee Yellowknife.
Wildfires have burned a record area across the territory since flaring up in the spring. Ninety-five were still burning as of Tuesday.
