2 cabins burned in wildfire near Fort Smith

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 02, 2025 10:31 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Two cabins adjacent Fort Smith, N.W.T., person burned in a wildfire that originated successful Alberta, according to a quality merchandise Sunday from N.W.T. Fire. 

One was mislaid contempt crews mounting up sprinklers to support structures successful the area. Crews weren't capable to bash operation extortion enactment for the 2nd compartment owed to mediocre visibility.

The 2 cabins were successful antithetic areas, though N.W.T. Fire didn't specify wherever they were. N.W.T. Fire said they person notified the owners. 

"It is ever unfortunate erstwhile structures are lost," wildfire accusation serviceman Thomas Bentham said successful the wildfire update Sunday. "These threats are a world successful wildland areas."

Bentham wrote that operation extortion enactment saved respective different cabins implicit the weekend.

The occurrence covers astir 65 square kilometres and is astir 28 kilometres eastbound of Fort Smith successful the Schaefer Lake area. 

There were 2 different fires burning successful the South Slave arsenic of Sunday afternoon's update — 1 astir 24 kilometres from Fort Smith on the Slave River, and 1 by Cameron Hills, astir 13 kilometres westbound of Hwy 1.

Five fires were burning successful the Dehcho —one astir 30 kilometres southwest of Sambaa K'e, 1 74 kilometres from Fort Liard and 1 occurrence astir 27 kilometres southwest of Fort Simpson. Bentham said those fires don't airs a hazard to the communities. Two different fires pain conscionable northbound of the B.C. border.