Bare foundations of destroyed homes, scorched vehicles, the shell of what was a Petro-Can gas station — devastating images to emerge from a tour of Jasper on Friday evening.
Raw video from Friday, July 26, 2024 of the damage left behind when a wildfire tore through the town of Jasper two days prior.by a wildfire that then went on to destroy about a third of the Alberta mountain town, a clearer picture of emerging of the devastation.
“On behalf of the community, it’s important that I go and get a sense of what we have to work with,” he said in a candid interview. “I see memories of life taken,” he said, pausing to take in the scene of the home his family had lived in since he was two years old. “I see 67 years.”Mayor of Jasper loses home in devastating mountain park wildfire: ‘I see memories of life taken’
“It’s hard to see… I think people need to prepare themselves,” Smith said. “The areas that have been hit by fire are heavily, heavily damaged.” “The circumstances were such that despite all of that preparation, the nature of this fire was such that it humbled the humans on the ground,” Ireland said.
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