“British Columbia is committed to providing safe shelter for evacuees from Jasper and is working as quickly as possible to coordinate routes and host communities on our side of the border,” said Bowyn Ma, British Columbia’s Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Preparedness. Said On social media.
Recruiting evacuees photograph Pictures of the traffic jams were posted on social media. Joe Gentile, who was visiting the park from Calgary and planned to stay with his family until Thursday, said in a phone interview that he was stuck in traffic for about four hours after filling up with gas.
Being in town “feels like being at a campfire,” he said. The air was thick with smoke and ash was falling. But the mood was calm, he said. “The streets are full of people,” he said at about 1:30 a.m. local time. “We’re leaving very late. [but] The people here are very laid back.”
“It appears that a lot of the campgrounds that are pretty close to the fire were the first to have to evacuate,” he added.
Jasper officials confirmed the traffic jam. FacebookThe company said it and Parks Canada are working to improve traffic flow and ensure fuel supplies.
Serious wildfires The virus has rekindled in Canada since last week. After a relatively quiet start to the fire season, Last year was the worst season on record. Tens of millions of acres of land have burned. lightning It started to move It moved through drought-hit western Canada last week, with Alberta and British Columbia being the hardest hit.
on monday, there were According to the Canadian Joint Forest Fire Centre, there are about 400 out-of-control fires burning across the country, 56 of them in Alberta alone.
