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Tuesday June 30 2015 3 ENVIRONMENT WILDFIRES Appraised at 515000 asking 499000 Centrally located 6 car parking 3 complete private suites double lot Brand new furnace plumbing and electrical all new windows totally renovated hardwood throughout main floor All appliances and furniture are negotiable. Turn-key operation live in one suite and rent the others or operate a bed and breakfast. TRIPLEX FOR SALE 28 Cumming Avenue Fort Smith NT Email ruth_ rolfehotmail.com for enquiries or to set up a viewing. Congratulations Dr. James Jamie you have achieved your childhood goal to be a physician in the NWT. You are the first of the Tlicho people to do this. Your hard work dedication and successful completion of your studies has made your family friends and community of Tlicho people very proud indeed You will bring your traditional Tlicho knowledge your skills as a medical practitioner your warmth your strong sense of community and environmental responsibility and your creativity and resourcefulness to meet the needs of your patients over the coming years. Jamie and the family thank the Tlicho Government and the GNWT Departments of Health and Social Services Education Culture and Employment and Environment and Natural Resources for their support. With best wishes for your future from your mother Rosa Wah-Shee father Jack Van Camp brothers Richard Roger and John and all your friends. Dr. James Joseph Van Camp MD CCFP Continued from page 1. The NWT is just one of many jurisdictions burningacrosstheNorthandwesternCanada where communities are being evacuated in Saskatchewan and likely soon in Manitoba. Over 600 new res exploded across western Canada over the weekend. The extreme re season to the south has meant national resources are stretched thin and res everywhere need to be prioritized. Within Canada resources are very tight. Most people are actively working res and so available resources to be shared within mu- tual aid agreements across Canada things are becoming quite difcult Olsen said. So we really are tasked with making sure we pri- oritize our res and make really good use of the resources we have in place. Currently 28 ve-person crews are working throughout the territory along with an addi- tional 70 emergency reghters from within the NWT. Forty more reghters have been imported from Ontario along with a re be- haviour specialist. We are looking at other specialized re- sources to bring in specically people that can help with the risk to communities and who are experts in structure protection and have equipment for structure protection Olsen said. Fires being actioned across territory Outside of those priority areas other res are being initial attacked in the South Slave. One northeast of Fort Providence also escaped initial attack and will be actioned further once more resources become avail- able. Two other res near Fort Providence were brought under control while others are being monitored including two near the turnoff to Kakisa on the north side of the highway. Those are currently limited by last years burns but with the potential to impact travel due to smoke. An incident management team has also been placed on a series of res in the Pine Point area called the Swampy Lakes Com- plex. One of those res jumped Highway 6 on the weekend closing the roadway. North- westel and NT Power Corp. infrastructure are at risk of burning and crews are expected to be working on that re for seven to 10 days minimum but the highway remains open. Work is also being down on another re 60 km south of Behchoko along Highway 3. Crews were prepared for an ignition opera- tion but weather conditions that brought erratic winds stalled those plans. A burn- out is planned for when conditions become adequate. Fire resources stretched across western Canada Over 600 new fires start over weekend from Yukon to Manitoba As well ve new res northeast of Fort Smith are threatening numerous values south of the Taltson dam an area of high use by local land-users. Work is being done on three of those to protect values and limit growth. Two existing res - one west of the Taltson River and the other south of Tsu Lake - con- tinue to burn with the former having grow- ing to well over 30000 hectares in size due to extreme re behaviour. Its now mainly being monitored as is the large re along Highway 3 south of Behchoko where crews have been working for over a month. Both those res are contributing quite a bit to smoke that people are experiencing in the Fort Smith area Olsen said. A new re that was just being assessed Monday was located 10-12 km southeast of Wekweeti but a response had yet to be de- termined as of press time. Based on the 20-year average for this time of year the NWT would normally see around 66 fires and 223000 hectares burned. Wood Buffalo Park res close Highway 5 to Fort Smith Fires burning within Wood Buffalo Na- tional Park along Highway 5 closed the sole roadway into Fort Smith on Sunday night. A total of 45 res were burning in the park as of the latest update on Monday. With lightning strikes throughout the park crews have been dispatched to protect not only the highway but values at Sweetgrass Station Garden River and Peace Point over the last week and crews have been imported from across the country. The largest re continues to burn near Garden River in Alberta totalling close to 200000 hectares in size. In Alberta Highway 35 towards the NWT was also closed at points over the weekend. It opened again Monday afternoon but was at risk for closing again on short notice due to smoke from a re near High Level. Another 75 res started in the NWT over the last week bringing the total to date to 158 with 129 still burning. ImageNWTre.com