“BC will do everything we can to provide safe haven for evacuees from Jasper, and we are working quickly to coordinate routes and organize host communities on our side of the border,” said Bowin Ma, British Columbia’s Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Preparedness. said On social media.
Posted by Evacuees Photographs Backed up traffic on social media. Joe Gentile, who came to the park from Calgary and planned to stay with his family until Thursday, said in a phone interview that he was stuck for about four hours after filling up on gas.
He said that being in the town was “like being in Gambhir”. The air was thick with smoke and gray rain. But the mood was calm, he said. “The streets are packed, they’re packed,” he said around 1:30 a.m. local time. “It’s coming out very slowly, [but] People here are very optimistic.
“It appears that a few camps that were very close to the fire will have to be evacuated first,” he added.
Jasper officials admit gridlock is on FacebookThey and Parks Canada said they are working to increase traffic and ensure fuel availability.
Fierce wildfires swept through Canada last week, after a relatively quiet start to the fire season and renewed fears after last year’s worst season on record, burning tens of thousands of acres. A fast moving fire Lightning started moving In western Canada, which was hit by drought last week, Alberta and British Columbia were hit hardest.
on Monday, there According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, there are about 400 uncontrolled fires in the country, 56 in Alberta alone.
