Liidlii Kue and Fort Simpson Community officials say FS016 remains active in and around subdivisions, as well as on the hills below Wildrose and near the trailer court.
Another structure protection task force arrived in the community on Monday.
Wildland Urban Interface crews and wildland firefighters focused their response on residential areas near Wildrose to extinguish active areas of FS016 east of Hwy 1.
“Aviation resources are suppressing wildfire on the eastern flank upslope of the Snye,” said NWT Fire on Monday.
An Incident Management Team of 20 crew with the help of airtankers and skimmers, nine helicopters, 89 wildland firefighters, 75 structure protection personnel, heavy equipment, structure protection vehicles and transport vehicles have been mobilized in response to the fire.
Wildland officials reported the wildfire covers an area about 33,118 hectares adjacent to the community.
An evacuation order remains in effect. On Sunday, Fort Simpson community officials declared a state of Local Emergency
They said doing so will allow them to operate under emergency conditions and access resources needed to respond effectively.
Community officials said area assessments continue with known structure loss documented and property owners notified.
The wildfire has not crossed the Liard River to the south near the ferry landing based on helicopter patrols, said crews.
They anticipated growth to the northwest once winds clear out the smoke over in the coming days.
Wildland crews said there is still a chance of growth over a number of days of “several” kilometres per day to the northwest along Highway 1 towards Wrigley.
Wildland officials provided an updated perimeter map in their latest report Monday evening.
They said the map shows the active perimeter over residential areas to the south.
The latest updates on the wildfire situation in the community can be found at NWT Fire, on the Liidlii Kue First Nation facebook site, the Fort Simpson facebook site and the GNWT webpages for the latest public notices, alerts and orders.
Community members are also being advised to register themselves and anyone evacuating with them, by heading to the GNWT’s evacuation registration webpages
