Pre-registration for flights to K鈥檃tl鈥檕deeche First Nation, Hay River and Fort Smith has been extended for one more day.
Emergency Management Organization information officer Jay Boast gave an update at a press conference on Sept. 14.
鈥淥ur phone lines will now be open until 10pm Tonight, and again from 8am to 5pm tomorrow,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e are asking you to call 1-888-383-6649.
鈥淚f for some reason you cannot call, we would ask that you email or get someone to email on your behalf to disasterassistance@gov.nt.ca 鈥� as mentioned before, pre registration is being used to develop our passenger lists.鈥�
South Slave Regional Emergency Management Organization regional superintendent Bobby Borque said that so far just about 700 people have pre-registered for a flight back to the three communities.
Boast said part of the motivation was an outage at the GNWT鈥檚 web page that was delaying people from pre-registering. He said 2,225 people have flown back to Yellowknife by plane and 6,587 vehicles have cross the Deh Cho bridge.
