EDMONTON — Multiple wildfires in Jasper National Park flared up with a vengeance late Monday night, forcing all park visitors along with the 4,700 residents of the Jasper townsite to flee west with little notice over mountain roads through darkness,
soot and ash.
The Jasper townsite — and the park's main east-west artery Highway 16 — were caught in a fiery pincer. Fires threatening from the northeast cut off highway access east to Edmonton. "Only when roadside fire conditions permit, small groups of escorted vehicles will be directed east on Highway 16," the town and park officials said in the alert.
“Everyone in Jasper must evacuate now,” the Alberta government stated in an emergency alert just after 10 p.m. The village of Valemount, just over the B.C.-Alberta boundary, opened its community hall to take in evacuees, with limited space for overnight lodging. Yanciw said there was no immediate need to direct evacuees to move on further west to Prince George — a larger centre with more facilities to handle evacuees.
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