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A little over a year since one-third of the town was destroyed by an out-of-control wildfire, documents released to CBC News ...
The Municipality of Jasper and Parks Canada are taking firmer measures to protect the park from wildfires, after the Jasper ...
Tracy Hahn’s walk home in Jasper looks a little different these days. A year after a wildfire destroyed a third of the Jasper ...
Damota said Shepherd was on the radio with Jasper fire Chief Mathew Conte during the fire and asked how the fight was going on the ground. "And Mat's response back was, 'We're losing,'" Damota said, ...
One fire, burning about five kilometres north of Jasper, had consumed about 270 hectares by Wednesday afternoon. The fire on the southern edge of town had mowed down about 10,800 hectares.
On July 24, 2024, a devastating wildfire swept through the remote mountain town in Jasper National Park in Alberta's Rockies, ...
The pine beetles raised everyone's awareness and our fear that this sort of thing, someday, sometime, could happen.' ...
Resilient, healing, enduring. That’s how the mayor of Jasper described the residents of the iconic Alberta mountain resort town that was devastated by lightning-sparked wildfires a year ago. Within ...
The fires then merged and reached approximately 320 square kilometres – the single largest fire in Jasper National Park’s history. About 30 per cent of Jasper’s 1,113 structures were levelled.
What has happened in Jasper National Park is a “microcosm of what we’re seeing across Western Canada,” said wildfire risk expert and former Parks Canada wildland firefighter Mathieu Bourbonnais.
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — Parks Canada says crews in the town of Jasper are fighting flames that are jumping from building to building but critical infrastructure has so far been protected. Parks ...
The Jasper wildfire flames felled trees, incinerated shrubs and left the mountains looking sparse — a barren, charred ...