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Audio clip NAT024 (EXTENDED)

NAT024 – (Wildfires-BC) (EXTENDED)
UNDATED. x–28s. The mayor of Fort Nelson, B-C is warning wildfire evacuees against returning home early. Rob Fraser says it is not safe in Fort Nelson right now, despite officials working hard to be able to let residents come back before next Tuesday.
(“..the community.”) (SOURCE:The Canadian Press)

TAG: He says people trying to return early could create highway lineups that slow down health-care workers who need to get through. Some 47-hundred Fort Nelson residents were forced from their homes by wildfire in northeastern B-C on May 10th.

The Canadian Press broadcast team