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The city’s weeks-long evacuation order will be officially lifted on Wednesday afternoon, meaning about 22,000 people will be making their way back home from Alberta, Manitoba, B.C., the Yukon and elsewhere.

Alty said in a brief email to CBC News on Sept. 1 that she wouldn’t be available for an interview on the evacuation strategy until after the city’s governance and priorities committee meeting during the week of Sept. 25.

Sibley said the city couldn’t provide a more detailed response because staff were busy preparing for residents to return on Wednesday, when the evacuation order is lifted.

“For me, making the decision not to evacuate in the first part, and then to change it, is the worst thing you can do,” said Alain Normand, the emergency management expert from York Unversity.

Normand said an actual phased approach could have been used in this case, if the city had a detailed neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood evacuation plan that the community was aware of before the announcement went out.

Some might argue that Yellowknife’s evacuation was a success — the vast majority of residents safely left the city, and no unexpected deaths or injuries were reported.

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