Huge wildfires are raging Canada. Authorities issued an evacuation order overnight for the city of Jasper and the national forest of the same name in the province of Alberta (west).
Jasper city officials had expected it to reach the community within five hours, but later backed off that estimate. But they stressed that the city should be evacuated as a precaution.
High temperatures in the northern hemisphere have caused fires across much of the western US and Canada.
367 forest fires
Last week, wildfires raging across northern Alberta forced authorities to order the evacuation of three communities. In the neighboring province of British Columbia, some 367 wildfires are still burning.
Earlier this month, Suncor, Canada’s second-largest oil company, temporarily cut some production and evacuated non-essential personnel from its 215,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Firebag facility due to a fire that burned about 5 miles (8 kilometers) across.
Source: RES-MPE