Multiple wildfires have flared up in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park, forcing visitors and thousands of residents to evacuate and flee.
EDMONTON, Alberta — Multiple wildfires have flared up in the Canadian Rockies' largest national park, forcing visitors along with thousands of residents to evacuate and flee west over mountain roads through darkness, soot, and ash, following a government alert during the busiest time of the year.
“It’s wall-to-wall traffic,” said Edmonton resident Carolyn Campbell in a phone interview from her vehicle early Tuesday. “ is pretty thick. We’ve got masks in the car.” The Municipality of Jasper and Jasper National Park said in an updated emergency alert Tuesday morning the evacuation from the townsite and the park is “progressing well” and people should continue to follow directives as the majority of traffic is being directed west on Highway 16.
“Everyone in Jasper must evacuate now,” the Alberta government stated in an emergency alert late Monday night. “Parks Canada is responding to multiple wildfire starts,” the federal agency said in its news release, adding it was"an evolving and dynamic situation.” Fires threatening from the northeast cut off highway access east to Edmonton. Another fire roaring up from the south forced the closure of the north-south Icefields Parkway. That left one route open — west to the neighboring province of British Columbia where officials scrambled to find places for people to stay.
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