An emergency alert warned residents and guests that they must be out by 3 a.m., with instructions to leave via the one remaining open highway.
Canada’s Jasper National Park and the town of Jasper were ordered to evacuate Monday night as a wildfire headed toward the community.said a wildfire was south of town and urged residents to evacuate by 3 a.m. local time Tuesday.
“Everyone in Jasper and Jasper National Park must evacuate now,” the alert said, with instructions to use Highway 16 heading west toward British Columbia as other roads were“BC will do everything we can to provide safe refuge for evacuees from Jasper and are working as quickly as possible to coordinate routes and arrange host communities on our side of the border,” Bowinn Ma, British Columbia’s minister of emergency management and climate readiness,of backed-up traffic on social media.
Being in the town was “like being in a campfire,” he said. The air was thick with smoke and ash was raining down. But the mood was calm, he said. “The streets are full, they’re packed,” he said about 1:30 a.m. local time. “It is very slow leaving, people here are very poised.” “It appears that a bunch of campgrounds needed to be evacuated first that were much closer to the fire,” he added.July 21, 2024Frankie Luvu wants to put a charge into the rebuilding Commanders
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