As Nicole Frost remains in a coma at an Edmonton hospital, Yukoners are coming out in full force to support family members staying with the traffic accident victim.

'People are pretty good at helping out. In the Yukon people, I think, are pretty generous,' Barb Joe, a cousin of Nicole's mother, Donna, said in an interview Tuesday.

Early last Thursday morning, Nicole, 23, was medivaced to Edmonton after the Chevrolet she was driving left the road and took out a lamp post near the Young Offenders Facility on Range Road.

Frost remains in a coma.

Joe and others around the Yukon wanted to help the many family members from across the North who have travelled to Edmonton to be able to focus on Nicole and not have to worry about the costs of hotel rooms, meals, cabs and other incidentals.

'They don't know how long they're going to be down there,' Joe noted.

The non-insured health benefits enabled two family members to fly from Whitehorse to be with Nicole, but family members not in the territory had to foot the bill from their locations.

Frost's mother, for example, had to pay for a flight from Anchorage to Seattle to Calgary before she finally landed in Edmonton.

Joe estimated there are between 15 and 20 family members and others visiting Nicole, including the father of her nearly two-year-old son, who is being cared for by family members remaining in the territory.

The day of the crash, about $800 was collected to help the family.

That fundraising has continued with the Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) agreeing to collect donations in Whitehorse. Anyone wanting to donate to the cause is welcome to drop funds off at the CYFN building in Riverdale.

Students at Yukon College, where Frost had been attending, also collected money to help out, said Joe.

Throughout the North, collections have been springing up as well.

In Fort Yukon, Alaska, another family member has been collecting money. In Old Crow, Brenda Frost has been going door-to-door for funds with at least $1,000 already raised.

Yesterday, Joe took a call from one of Nicole's friends in Pelly Crossing who is raising money. A similar call also came in from Haines Junction about a collection being taken up there.

The Champagne-Aishihik First Nation was scheduled to host a bingo last night to raise money for the cause.

There's also been discussion around a benefit dinner being organized in the territory.

'They respond, I think, because she was so well-known. Nicole's such a bubbly person,' said Joe.

As local residents continue to do whatever they can to support the family, members continue to wait for the latest word from Nicole's doctors. Nicole is scheduled to undergo an MRI.

'We're just waiting,' said Joe.