About 70 per cent of Fort Smith, N.W.T. residents have left the community after an evacuation order was issued on Saturday.
The order was issued for the town and for Smith’s Landing First Nation as a wildfire in Wood Buffalo National Park threatens Highway 5.
Adam McNab, the director of protective services for the Town of Fort Smith, said that having 70 per cent of the community leave in the first day is pretty high, but they hope to get more people out on Sunday.
He said although they can’t force people from their homes, the order is as “mandatory as they can make it.”
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