Canadian wildfires: 25,000 evacuated from tourist town of Jasper

People were told to leave the popular tourist town of Jasper on Tuesday as fires approached.

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The blaze has spread through Jasper National Park, causing "significant loss" within the town, according to park officials on X, formerly Twitter.

Hundreds of wildfires have sparked in the western provinces of Alberta and British Columbia (BC).

The region has been hit by more than 58,000 lightning strikes within the last week, sparking new blazes after a three-week heat wave, according to BC Wildfire Service.

Around 1,900 Alberta firefighters have been deployed, assisted by personnel from Alaska and Australia, and are working to save local infrastructure.

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