Park rangers are scouring the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park in helicopters to look for stragglers still inside despite a mass evacuation aiming to move 25,000 visitors and residents away from two large wildfires.
A reception centre is readied for wildfire evacuees forced from Jasper National Park in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, July 23, 2024. 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 ’s Jasper National Park have flared up, forcing all park visitors along with the 4,700 residents of the Jasper townsite to flee.
Ellsworth said park officials expected the evacuation of the park’s backcountry areas to be completed later Wednesday. Reservations are required for the park, so authorities have an idea of where people are, though Ellsworth said she wasn’t immediately sure how many people were left.
But Alberta fire officials said British Columbia had its hands full with its own evacuations. Alberta Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis said reception centers were instead being set up in Grande Prairie and Calgary in Alberta, requiring long detours through British Columbia by the drivers fleeing Jasper.
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