Burning a large part of the tourist town of Jasper in Canada
A big fire that started last week destroyed nearly half of the small mountain town of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies, displacing nearly 5,000 residents and over 20,000 tourists fleeing the area.
According to the authorities in Alberta in Canada, preliminary estimates show that at least 30 to 50 percent of the buildings and equipment of this small tourist town have been burnt and reduced to ashes as a result of the spread of the fire in the last week.
This small town with a population of 5,000 is located in the Jasper National Park in the Rocky Mountains, which hosts several million tourists every year due to its beautiful valleys, glaciers, forests, plains and rivers.
In 2023, nearly 2.5 million tourists visited Jasper National Park, and in the last week when the fire spread, nearly 20,000 tourists were present in this area.
According to reports, the fire started last week during a storm and as a result of lightning striking the ground, and from Wednesday, August 3, as a result of high-speed winds, it intensified and its flames, which reached hundreds of meters in some places, quickly spread. spread in the region.
According to the Alberta Ministry of Public Safety, when the flames had reached 5 kilometers from the city of Jasper, the intensity of the wind caused the fire to enter the city “in less than 30 minutes”.
Nearly 400 firefighters from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Mexico have come to help the Canadian firefighters to fight the fire.
Alberta officials say people have been evacuated in time, but it is not yet clear what parts of the city have been reduced to ashes, and firefighters are focused on containing the fire and preventing it from spreading further.
Alberta officials say the town needs extensive reconstruction to be habitable again, and Mayor Richard Ireland said the fire has devastated the “small, tight-knit mountain” community.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote in a post on the X-Force Network: “As the harrowing images of Jasper are released, I thank the rescuers who came to the aid of people in Alberta, who worked to save as many homes and communities as possible.”
According to the obtained data, the year 2023 was the hottest year on earth in the past century and a half. In this year, many countries such as Iran, China, Greece, Spain and the southern regions of the American continent have passed the burning year.
According to the report of New York Times, the average temperature of the planet during the last year broke the record of the previous month every month, and scientists predict that this year could be even hotter than last year.
In a recent year, Canada experienced its largest land fire with an area of more than 45 million hectares, which was considered the most destructive fire in Canadian history.
In August last year, the intensification of widespread fires in the provinces of British Columbia and the northwestern regions of Canada led to the evacuation of the homes of tens of thousands of residents of these regions.
The Minister of the British Columbia province of Canada declared a state of emergency due to the spread of the fire, 15,000 residents of this province were ordered to evacuate their homes, and 20,000 others were under evacuation warnings.
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