Multiple wildfires in the Canadian Rockies' largest national park sent up to 25,000 visitors and residents fleeing west.
This photo provided by Carolyn Campbell shows cars clogging the highway as people evacuate because of wildfires early Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Jasper, Alberta . Multiple wildfires in Canada âs Jasper National Park have flared up, forcing all park visitors along with the 4,700 residents of the Jasper townsite to flee.
Hundreds of wildfires are burning in western Canada, and those fleeing Jasper National Park and Jasper town — home to 4,700 full-time residents — in Alberta province were given the unusual order later Tuesday to make a vast U-turn east if they needed a place to stay. To the west, British Columbia province already had more than 300 wildfires of its own.
Fires threatening from the northeast cut off highway access east to Alberta's capital, Edmonton. Another fire roaring up from the south forced the closure of the north-south Icefields Parkway. That left one route open west to British Columbia. The Municipality of Jasper and Jasper National Park said the evacuation was “progressing well," and park and town officials scrambled to clear traffic gridlock, find fuel for vehicles and help vulnerable people to safety while marshaling resources to battle the fires.
Parks Canada said evacuations had been carried out at numerous campgrounds as well as the Athabasca Hostel and the Palisades Stewardship and Education Centre. Many evacuees at first sought refuge in Valemount, British Columbia, a town of 1,000 people about 120 kilometers west of Jasper.
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