A large wildfire burned out of control in northern California, consuming 3,500 acres and threatening thousands of homes and other structures. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. The West is also dealing with stifling temperatures, with 120 million people under heat alerts. NBC News' Liz Kreutz reports.
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta — A fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies that had prompted 25,000 people to flee roared into the near-deserted town of Jasper overnight as a “wall of fire,” devastating up to half the structures in the picturesque resort, officials said Thursday.
Alberta Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis said a wind gust moved the wildfire about 5 kilometers in probably less than 30 minutes toward the town with a wall of fire that he estimated was 100 meters high. “People need to picture what those wildfire folks were experiencing at that time. Any firefighter will tell you there is little to nothing you can do when a wall of fire like that is coming at you,” Ellis said. “Nobody anticipated the fire to come so fast, so large.
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