A massive line of people at Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife, who are waiting to register for an evacuation flight out of the wildfire-threatened city, is moving slowly — amid light rain. “Nobody can believe this is happening.”Airlines adjustingAir Canada says it’s added two extra flights out of Yellowknife on Thursday — doubling the number of flights it would have under normal conditions. All the flights scheduled out of the city today are full, the company said. Although flights are nearly full, at the time I am sending this there is a Yellowknife-Edmonton flight for $272 for example for tomorrow.”WestJet, meanwhile, said it’s added an extra recovery flight scheduled on Thursday from Yellowknife to Calgary, and is using bigger aircraft to run previously scheduled flights. wildfires, CBC NewsNorway: Smoke from Canadian wildfires forecast to reach Norway, The Associated PressRussia: New NOAA report finds vast Siberian wildfires linked to Arctic warming, The Associated PressUnited States: Wildfires in Anchorage?
