Canada’s Jasper National Park and the town of Jasper were ordered to evacuate Monday night as a wildfire headed toward the community.
The emergency alert said a wildfire was south of town and urged residents to evacuate by 3 a.m. Tuesday.
“BC will do everything we can to provide safe refuge for evacuees from Jasper and are working as quickly as possible to coordinate routes and arrange host communities on our side of the border,” Bowinn Ma, British Columbia’s minister of emergency management and climate readiness, said on social media.
On Monday, there were about 400 out-of-control fires in the country and 56 out of control in Alberta alone, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center.
