Yellowknife residents were seen queueing on the roadside yesterday, patiently waiting to register for evacuation flights.

In this video you can see the line of people stretching a long way down a road.

The Northwest Territories government website , externaladvises residents wanting to board an evacuation flight to register at Sir John Franklin High School. Those who are registered will then be shuttled from the school to the airport, according to the website.

It also warns residents to "not go to the airport".

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What happens when demand for flights suddenly soars? Well, the ticket prices usually steeply increase.

But Air Canada says this is not the case for emergency flights out of Yellowknife as they capped the costs "at the earliest possible time".

On social media screengrabs were shared of flights to Edmonton, capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, being sold at more than $1,000, which now appear to have been lowered to about $272.

The airline explained that some of these were "aggregated fares" from different websites or technical errors - and advised customers to always purchase directly from the Air Canada website to avoid more expensive routes.

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As dawn approaches in Canada's Northwest Territories, firefighters will continue working to stop wildfires from reaching the city of Yellowknife in the north of the country.

The Northwest Territories fire information officer, Mike Westwick, said the coming days will bring winds pushing the fires in directions "we don't want".

"We're heading into a critical couple of days during the management of this wildfire," Westwick said yesterday.

"We expect to see north-west winds to west-north-west winds over the next two days and those are winds that will trend both of those fires in directions that we don't want."

Nadine Yousif
BBC reporter, Toronto, Canada

Like many in Canada's Northwest Territories, Poul Osted has been relying on social media to keep in touch with loved ones as they scramble to evacuate from nearby wildfires.

But Osted said he has been left frustrated by his inability to share news articles on Facebook during the active emergency situation, due to Meta's ban on news content for Canadian users.

"Instead we have to screenshot parts of a news story and post that as a picture," Osted told the BBC.

"Oftentimes this means you don't get the whole story, or have to go searching the web for verification."

Meta - which owns Facebook and Instagram - began blocking access to news for its Canadian users on 1 August, not long after Canada's parliament passed an online news bill that will require platforms like Google and Meta to negotiate deals with news publishers for content.

It has called the law "fundamentally flawed legislation that ignores the realities of how our platforms work".

As we've been reporting, Yellowknife residents were ordered on Wednesday to leave by noon today following warnings that wildfires could reach the city by the weekend.

The video below shows the extent of the approaching fires, with huge plumes of smoke rising into the air and fires forming by the roadside.

Some people who left Yellowknife for Vancouver have been sharing their relief at landing safely more than 1,500km (800 miles) from their city.

Hannah Van Der Wielen was visiting Yellowknife for a wedding and described the sense of unease she felt before leaving yesterday.

"I was eating in the hotel restaurant and I had a feeling like being on the Titanic, from that scene when they're having their fine dining and chaos is breaking out around them," she told CBC News, external.

She described a "ghost town" with "smoke billowing around the streets".

People living in Yellowknife have had to work quickly and pack up their belongings as the wildfire quickly approaches the city. One woman brought her pet hedgehog.

Officials say the fire is 15km (9 miles) north-west of the northern Canadian city and could reach the outskirts by tomorrow if there is no rain.

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All 20,000 residents of Yellowknife have been told to evacuate the area with people fleeing by road and air.

Shane Thompson, the minister of environment and climate change in the Northwest Territories government, has been describing the scenes in the city in recent days.

"There've been lots of vehicles out on the road. I mean, you can see lots and lots of I guess I'd call it convoys, but just rolls and rolls of vehicles leaving."

"We're hoping everybody gets out by the deadline," he said, which is noon local time (18:00 GMT) today.

He added that with a combination of commercial and military flights, including two Hercules planes, he hoped to get everyone out as quickly as possible.

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A regular hike turned into a miraculous rescue for three hikers in British Columbia after they were trapped by a wildfire.

As they were walking, they suddenly found their path blocked by the fire. After a panicked call to emergency services, a helicopter came to the rescue.

"I could have died," one hiker told the BBC, and said the situation showed her just how quickly things can change.

Canada is having its worst wildfire season on record, with more than 1,000 active fires burning across the country from British Columbia in the west to Quebec in the east.

Emergency services are at what is called National Preparedness Level 5 – the highest possible - meaning all firefighters in the country are being tasked with tackling the blazes.

Canada is used to dealing with wildfires at this time of year but a warmer, drier spring than usual has seen more of them burning out of control.

Scientists say climate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel the fires.

As well as the huge evacuation effort in the city of Yellowknife, a state of emergency has been declared in the city of Kelowna in the province of British Columbia.

Residents in 1,000 properties in West Kelowna have been told to evacuate and thousands more are on evacuation alert.

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Angry residents of Yellowknife were being turned away from evacuation flights yesterday as the wildfire rapidly approached the city.

People who waited in hours-long queues to board flights out on Thursday were told by officials to try again today or tomorrow.

A massive queue of people waiting to register for evacuation flights had formed outside a local high school.

But by afternoon local time, Amy Kennedy, the government's director of communications, said no more than 400 more people could be flown out of Yellowknife.

Officials say about 5,000 people need to leave Yellowknife by air, and that weather delays have complicated the flight schedule.

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About 46,000 people live in the Northwest Territories, and Canada's military has been co-ordinating the largest airlift evacuation effort in the region's history.

As well as Yellowknife, the communities of Fort Smith, K'atl'odeeche First Nation, Hay River, Enterprise, and Jean Marie River are all also under evacuation orders.

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As we've been reporting, a wildfire is fast approaching the small city of Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

Authorities have ordered the approximately 20,000 people who call Yellowknife home to evacuate, encouraging carpooling to reduce congestion on the roads out of town.

Evacuation flights are departing throughout the day for those who are not driving to safety, and there have been reports of long lines at petrol stations in the city and on the road out of town.

As of yesterday, a fire was approximately 15km (9 miles) from the city's edge, and it’s estimated fire could reach the outskirts of town by tomorrow.

"Very tough days ahead - with two days of northwest to west-northwest winds on Friday and Saturday, which would push fire towards Yellowknife," the territorial fire service said in a statement on Facebook.

Marita Moloney
Live reporter

Hello and thanks for joining our live coverage of the wildfires raging across Canada's Northwest Territories.

Evacuation efforts are continuing in the city of Yellowknife, home to 20,000 residents who have been told to leave their homes by noon local time (18:00 GMT) today.

Thousands of people have crowded into the local airport and the road out of town, while hundreds have also lined up for emergency military evacuation flights.

The Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency late on Tuesday as it battles nearly 240 wildfires.

My colleagues and I in London will bring you the latest developments on the fires and evacuation efforts, so stay with us.