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The wildfire threatening Canada’s historic town of Jasper has quadrupled in size to more than 36,000 hectares and damaged up to half of the structures in town as of Friday.
Parks Canada said it would be some time before the damage to Jasper and the national park could be fully assessed. Officials said the park “received a small amount of rain overnight” on Thursday, but it was not enough to make a “meaningful impact to the overall wildfire situation, which remains out of control.”“blocks of buildings and houses turned to charred rubble and foundations,” lines of cars “blackened by fire” along the streets, and scorched trees standing like “matchsticks.
Eyewitnesses described a three-hundred-foot wall of flame descending on the town, from which firefighters and rescue personnel were forced to retreat. Alberta Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis“What you’re dealing with is just a monster at that point,” Parks Canada fire management chief Pierre Martel said. “There are no tools we have in our toolbox to deal with that.
Some Canadians strongly objected to the inevitable “climate change” narrative for the wildfires, insisting the blame lies squarely on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his administration’s failure to implement sound fire management policies despite growing warnings:They happened because we sent 12 billion dollars to Ukraine instead of equipping our own country with the equipment to fight fires
“Thousands of tweet/exchanges as recent as last month highlight local concern over Jasper as a tinderbox managed by a sclerotic bureaucracy at Parks for seven years,” he said.
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