The fire on Chetamon Mountain, which ignited after a lightning strike on Sept. 1, has expanded to about 1,500 hectares as of Sunday morning, Parks Canada said on its Jasper National Park social media pages.Firefighters on the ground cannot access the fire, which is burning on the mountain's upper slopes. Parks Canada says wind pushed flames into the upper slopes of the Vine Creek valley Saturday.
The agency's top priority Sunday is further protecting critical infrastructure and adding more helicopters to the suppression efforts. That includes protecting culturally significant sites, such as the Moberly Homestead, which is part of Métis history, it added. The wildfire is burning north of Jasper, Alta., a municipality about 315 kilometres southwest of Edmonton.
On Saturday, "specialized fire crews" had started making fire control lines to protect the community's electric power line. As of Sunday morning, the fire was about 400 metres from the power line, according to Parks Canada.
Not really climate change just very much where the fire started is very difficult to get too making it hard to control. you have a fire 3/4 of the way up a steep mountain not gonna be easy to put out.
Sadly again
Yup fires love heat warnings, no worries jT will replant the trees.
noangelforme We need a global response to these fires.
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