GNWT waiting till 2025’s fires end before responding to 2023 review – Cabin Radio
September 12, 2025
The NWT government says it won’t release its formal response to a review of GNWT actions during the 2023 wildfire season while 2025’s fires are still a threat.
In 2023, Yellowknife, Hay River, Fort Smith, Behchokǫ̀ and multiple other NWT communities were evacuated because of wildfires. That summer, more than two-thirds of the territory’s population came under evacuation orders.
Most of the hamlet of Enterprise was destroyed by a fire in August that year. The community is still early in the recovery process.
