This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Batcher. The news is positive for Yellowknife in the

Northwest Territories, under threat for days of fires getting closer and closer. These

are vast fires covering square miles that I cannot summarize. So I go to my colleague, Charles

Burton of the MacDonald-Laurie Institute to understand Canadian firefighting right now in the

summer of 2023. Charles, a very good day to you. This is positive news somewhat that there has been

some minimal rainfall in the Yellowknife area that has slowed the advance of the fire on the city

itself, Northwest Territories. But the expectation now is that the fire will reach the outer

limits of Yellowknife by Wednesday of this week and another 48 hours. I first discovered Yellowknife

in photographs of late 19th and early 20th century. The Northwest Territory, the Northwest

Mounted Police, the deployments, the wood-built towns, the mining, your measure of Yellowknife and the

evacuation of Yellowknife. Is this considered a success given the scale of these forest fires?

Good evening to you. Good evening. Well, I mean, certainly it's been a success in the sense that,

you know, 20,000 people have been evacuated from the Northwest Territories and are being well

received by communities in the south in Alberta. And so, you know, it's been a successful evacuation,

quite harrowing as the one highway out of Yellowknife going south had fires on either side and people

could see fires as they were as they were going down and there was concern that that the road could

end up being blocked. There have been difficulties in evacuating, say, animals. People got up with

with trucks to remove horses. But I think most of the people who should be leaving Yellowknife

have left about 5% have evidently stayed behind. And these people are inclined to say, well,

if the fire comes to my house, I'm going to jump into my boat and get out onto the sea. So it's

hard to say what the future holds, but certainly the delay in the fire moving towards Yellowknife has

given the 300 Canadian forces that have been set up there, plus 600 firefighters, including some

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