This makes me so incredibly sad this morning. At a loss for words. Jasper has been so important to me throughout my life. This news is really a gut punch.
I’m from Costa Rica and 12 years ago I moved to Jasper. Lived and worked there for almost 5 years. This is the place where I made some of my best memories of my life , friends and where I also met the love of my life. Breaks my heart to see what’s happening to a place I once called home. Stay strong but most importantly, stay safe.
As teens, my best friend and I hitchhiked across Canada to spend the summers of 1971 and 1972 camped beside the pristine Athabasca River. The town of Jasper meant so much to us and changed our lives forever. I'm heartbroken.
I was searching for this. Thank you. I seen the radar for jasper last night and was praying for lots of rain last night. This is good news and hope for many. Bless you for posting this comment.
@@CaliDawnhey, i dont have FB and i hear that 80 horses have been rescued and need temporary residence. We're by Sangudo and have lots of available free grazing to share. Do you know anyone with any info on this at all?
Well the city will never be close to the same it’s sad for the people and I really wanted to go here for holidays and now I can’t the rain doesn’t matter they just need to protect the important places like the Hostipital and Water source hope they can find something to save the city cause rn it’s gone half the town was destroyed…😭
@@clairefarnell9489 Perhaps try reaching out to the Alberta SPCA. They may be able to direct you. Thank you for thinking about the animals that have been displaced.
It's sad. My wife and I were married there 12 year's ago and the places we visited there were so welcoming to us our hearts go out to everyone there and stay safe
First the mountain pine beetle came through, killing hundreds of thousands of trees around the town. Now fire is coming through, and those trees are just so many torches. And they're all around, north, south, east and west of the town.
I would like to think Mother Nature is doing what she does best. get rid of the old, From the burned will spring new trees. But, this fire was not set by Mother Nature.
Last year I was flying out of Prince George, and about 100 firefighters from Mexico were in the airport getting ready to fly north. Thank goodness I speak Spanish so was able to thank them for their efforts- what an incredible sight to see!
My heart is there with you. In 2018 I honeymooned with my boyfriend at the Maligne Lodge. One of the MOST beautiful moments of my life. Now I heard about the fires...my heart is broken. A big hug. We are with you. Daniele & Diego with DEEP LOVE from Rome, Italy. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was just there last week :( JASPER family reunion ... my grandson Jackson, who will be one and a half years old next week, I was telling him all the things we'll do there when he's a bit bigger. Heartbreaking~praying for containment of the fire, & help from rain to get it put out.
I was just there a week ago. As someone born in Kelowna I get the the feeling of loss. Keep it up crews and people of Jasper. You will raise from the ashes. Alberta strong!!as long as no firefighters or people are not lost, you win the battle. Things and structures can be replaced. ❤
Grew up in Edmonton and spent so many summers camping in and around Jasper skiing in the winters. Incredible sad for the locals and the town. An ICON of Alberta😭❤️🇨🇦
This breaks my heart. I went to Jasper two years ago. Such a beautiful park and quaint little town. I have wonderful memories from that trip. I hope most of it can be saved
Alberta is a rich province and with the number of fires we get every summer this Province should have a Provincially owned fleet of fleet if Canadair water bombers
It's a federal park and Ottawa robs Alberta of tens of billions of dollars every year. Give Alberta the parks and our money then you can complain about what Alberta did or didn't do.
And those water bombers need permission to be deployed in the National Parks. There are many deficiencies that need to be corrected. For one, you can't have someone from another part of the country making uninformed decisions about our National Parks. Nature doesn't work that way. Give a local body more authorty when working with a national body regarding risk management in our national parks. Pledging help only after a region is destroyed ridiculous.
I visited the park three weeks ago. The trees that died from the Pine Beetle infestation 5 years ago were still there up on the hills. Parks Canada never removed them. They became part of the landscape to the point where regular visitors just didn’t notice them anymore. Obviously they added to the intensity of the fire.
You think after last year, they would make a real effort to remove the deadwood to avoid making any future fires possible or worse. But now people will blame this on climate change like this is the reason a wildfire is raging here or anywhere else.
I grew up in Hinton and Jasper was my backyard. I have more memories, surrounding Jasper, than almost any others. Sending love and support to all the Jasper residents during this time of tragic loss! 💔
@@DeeLee-ry9qhso we should cut out firefighting jobs aell off waterbomber make sure we call other countries help fight fire but won't cost taxpayer's anything
It's only a matter of time for Banff. The provincial and federal governments don't care about protecting these towns with water bombers or preventative measures.
@@elephantom12Why doesn't the government care about protecting Banff? Are they on record stating as much? What should they be doing to prevent Banff from burning?
Give it up with the arson narrative and just admit for once in your life that the science in the 1800s proving carbon dioxide is a green house gas is real
Jasper is my favorite place to visit, and my heart is broken now. Usually, I visit jaspet twice a year, and it's too sad to hear this new 😢 God. Please help us please protect people and animals in jasper!
@@AugustusFloopGod is very much real and I have seen His miracles. Prayer is very powerful! I pray for the people of Jasper and the firefighters that they remain safe and guarded by strength of Jesus Christ. I also pray for you, AugustusFloop, that you will feel the love and power of God and allow Him into your life. In Jesus name, Amen 🙏.
I was burnt over and through in Torrington NSW 2371in 2019, you will recover just like we did since then. Our love, prayers and respect is on its way to you. From Torrington NSW 2371
@@imacmill I mean want do you need to know? He said it himself, it has been a tinderbox basically meaning it has been so bone dry that it was perfect for a fire to break out. It's that simple really.
@@imacmill Well the dry conditions are what you'd call a *drought* - caused by a severe lack of rain in the area. The prevention? A whole lot of worldly team effort to tackle a rapidly changing climate beyond what should be natural to prevent areas closer to the Arctic from seeing high temperatures that shouldn't be happening in those regions. It's just common sense.
@@Mykst What 'common sense' shall we bring to bear on a rapidly-changing climate? Give us something practical and achievable, taking into account what we know about human nature.
This is so so sad! For anyone who’s visited or lives in Jasper, you know it’s an absolute Canadian gem. Stay safe my fellow Canadians. 🇨🇦🍁🫎🦫🛶🦌🦅🦆🦉🐦⬛🌲🏕️
@@johnwalker1471 There are lots on social media, but they need to get permission to use them. It's a little difficult to do that when those people are in the middle of evacuating.
I visited Jasper once before and it was so beautiful, I instantly fell in love with it. This is honestly so shocking and sad to see such a wonderful place be burned like this
Billions wasted on untold government bureaucracy and special interest projects here and all around the world, but we can't fight fires right here in Canada. Or choose not to.
We're all the blame for how fast climate is changing. Government has nothing to do with fires. That is how fast we stopped caring for our planet. The government could do better. But the world is just getting worse.. and we as humans are NOT doing anything to change this.
I discovered this place for the first time only a couple of week ago. I feel sorry to see such a place turn into ashes. My heart with locals stay strong.
It's amazing we talk about climate change but we do nothing to mitigate before this happens, it's call park management. Cleaning out underbrush, dead fall and control burns like the Indians did. If climate change is such an issue mitigation is keym
Are we all going to ignore the unsurprising occurrence of someone typing right wing rhetoric also calling them "Indians"? Or consider that there is no way anyone ever cleared and managed a million square miles of forest or even the fraction of that which is populated and park land. If you want brush clearing and controlled burns, then go ahead and petition the government to spend the billions of dollars to get that done, and accept the tax increase needed to find that money, or the national debt consequences. And prepare for the consequences when a decent percentage of controlled burns get out of control causing more of these situations.
I have been to jasper twice in my life and it was beautiful I sincerely hope that anyone who is helping to put out the fire is ok and manages to put out the fire
I have been watching satellite images through out the night and there has been rain over the jasper town site and much of the park over night so hopefully this will have given the fire fighters a much need hand in tackling the fire, have to wait till the sun rises there to see what's happening and see if the rain was able to knock down some of the flames
I too watched the radar and seen rain was coming over Jasper last night. Believe for more rain to stop the fire and devastation in Alberta and British Columbia ❤
@junkfoodguy the liberals and if you say no the conservatives then the liberals didn't put it back so they are equally if not more at fault considering the wildfire risk wasn't as large when the conservatives were in power federally.
When a society wastes tax dollars on items that are irrelevant it leaves empty coffers for crucial firefighting equipment and improvements. Politicians need to do better.
Some of the things our Govt. Is spending on. $351.2 million Job funding Cdn Summer Jobs Program,opportunities for disabled, non-white and L $10 million Cdn Heritage for funding minorities in media. $25 million for "anti-hate" and community programming. $11 million "museum space in Toronto to Sikh arts culture, $26.8 million for Policing supporting hate crime training for police $3 million was given to Pride festivals Gender Equality $12 million to fund "projects to combatting hate against the 2SLGBTQI+ $4 million to a mental health fund for Black Canadians racked up $750 million since 2018get $16 million Sport Support Program, for "advancing DEI accessibility $91 million for communities to "document, locate and memorialize burial sites at former residentia $5 million has been set aside to combat "residential school denialism $630 million Indigenous mental health this year and next. $168 million over the next five years will go to "combat anti-Indigenous racism in health care." $5.5 million went towards the "revitalization of Indigenous laws and legal systems" $25 million for the Indigenous justice strategy, $1.3 million, which would send phone alerts for Indigenous woman goes missing 11 billion spending Indigenous portfolio in 2015 now $33 billion in 2022
@@doctamoneystacks You should investigate how much tax revenue is generated for the AB and Cdn Govts from Oil & Gas Operations, how many jobs are created from oil & gas, and the economic effect for auto dealerships, heavy equipment, hotels, restaurants, etcetera etcetera. Then maybe you'd have an informed understanding.
Forest fire creates the most life out of any planetary cycle. It renews the earth. We have let all these forests ahead far past what normal cycles would have allowed. Creating massive fuel stockpiles that aren't harvested and managed because feelings. Then it burn down in a few years anyway. Because that's how it works. We have history of forest fires blazing for 10years straight in BC before humans started managing it.
Well if you knew anything about wildfires instead of implying the government lit it on fire those trees have no fuel under them and the structure was ignited from embers falling from the air.
Depends entirely on what kind of roof is on the building. Embers can travel a couple miles in the wind, then fall onto shingles made from tar, ignite the roof. Once the shingles are burning, there is no stopping the fire. Goes even faster if the roof is made from cedar shingles. The thing that amazes me, how many folks that have no knowledge of, or experience with wildfires suddenly become 'experts' online when fires are happening. I'm sure you were an immunology expert in 2020, and a flood expert in 2022 as well.
My children born and raised here,we are all heartbroken,our lives are changed forever,how could this happen to all of us,we have been in Jasper for 23 years and never ever could anyone imagine something so diabolical coming our way and destroying everything,we are absolutely devastated!Sorry ,but we do not know how to keep going ....
We will need to wait till sunrise to see the true story of what happened overnight. The community, the livelihoods of many, business owners - this is a reminder of Ft. Mc a few years back.
Despite 420+ wildfires burning in B.C., The BC Wildfire Service sent four fire engines along with 17 firefighting crew members to Jasper late Wednesday night. I don't know if that includes the 2 engines and 8 firefighters from the villages of McBride and Valemount, BC volunteer fire crews. Prayers for the people of Jasper, and for the safety of those fighting the fires.
This makes me unbelievably sad. I love Jasper and the last time we visited we promised we would come back with our baby. I am so so sad for the people of Jasper. I hope the fire gets under control and the town can be restored.
@@SnailGameHereToFkU Do you really not understand the desired future effect from the current CT applied today? Jasper has no benefit from a CT implemented in 2019.
Why couldnt they get 30+ farmer sprinklers that shoot 100's of feet ? Pump it off the river and pre soak the town? We have terrible management in Canada.
You do know structures aren't built for that type of water, you aren't the first genius to think of this, millions in flooding damage is better than wildfire to you I suppose?
Presoaking the town is useless >> the heat of the fire has that dried up in 30 seconds. Your comment clearly shows your lack of understanding and experience with wild fires or even structure fires. One structure fire can days to put out; this fire is candling at 300-400 feet and is huge.
@@user-bu3nj5dn6v Noo. I used real world examples to inform me. Search google "Fast action and sprinklers during Prince Albert wildfire avoided 'millions of dollars' in damage" There are dozens of cases of this. Last year an entire community in Salmon arm saved their neighborhood because they built sprinkler infrastructure when they built the subdivision that pumps off the lake to pre wet homes. as they are remote with little to no fire access across the lake.
@@ttonAb2 If you think Jasper is at risk of flooding? Nothing can help you, They are at the base of some of the largest mountain ranges in the world and are designed by nature to take millions of years of Glacier flow. We aren't talking about Toronto.
@@ttonAb2millions in water damage or permanently destroyed buildings that are never coming back...then millions in fire damage AND water damage from the firefighting efforts anyways?
@@junglecat-v8v with the " natural " wildfires? They are not natural melting point of porcelain, steel ect is higher than wildfires burn-- compare the photos from lahona, California Canada Chile --to photos from 1990 any year before 2015- they are directed energy weapons Educational purposes only
Albertans are some of the most responsible people for these fires in the entire world. Sure, Alberta is only a small percentage of the world, and Canada is only a small percentage of the world, but if you add up all of the harm that climate change is going to do in the future, it's quite a lot that we're responsible for relative to our small size. Some people are praying to a god, but if there is a good, he is probably pretty angry.
@@ttonAb2 They were made more severe because burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide which increases global temperatures, which increases evaporation, which makes wildfires burn bigger. Your choices are causing more of the world to burn and will continue harming people for centuries to come.
This is absolutely ridiculous and sickening and should NEVER have happened...just should never happened .. seems suspicous very suspicious on why this happened....
Billions of dollars paid to Alberta to mitigate these fires, to cut back the brush, to clean up the abandon wells, to clean up the tar ponds where animals are dying. And the money has not been used to mitigate fires, to clean up water or to do anything useful to the population. Where has all that money gone when every year we see these fires over and over and over again? Alberta has no management. But of course, this will be blamed somehow in some suspicious way on Trudeau, because it's Alberta. I'm just surprised Pierre Polivare isn't out there hawking T shirts.
Ppl complaining about sending AB’s money back to them is just comical. The country pilfers AB, and you cry when they get a bit back and don’t spend it how you think they should. 😢 harder.
Please get the resources the firefighters need! Get more aerial support! Come on PM act quickly and decisively. Praying for everyone and all animals. 🙏🏻
The military that is having the recruitment crisis? They're running training missions in Europe right now I think. Not sure they would help much here. At the same time the government cant pay canadians enough to sign up to fight wildfires.
@@ryanhogan359 ya that's true of where I'm at in nova scotia too. Volunteer fire fighters in town are a social club with how many there are but we still spent weeks asking for outside help. Maybe it's time we had federal fire response resources.
@@joeisawesome540They've sent over 10 billion which pales in comparison to wildfire funding. Not sure why you would stick up for a government that cares more about a foreign war than its own people.
@@joshanderson924 well, I stick with a government that cares about people having bombs landing on their head? Do you not care? Btw, we spend billions of dollars each year to fight fire.
@@joshanderson924 btw, we didn’t give any money to Ukraine in 2021, and fire was just as bad! You think giving money to Ukraine is making our forest fires bad? Plus, we spend over 1 billion dollar a year to fight fires. There is no set budget for fire fighting. It is used as the needs are required. So some year it is over 1 billion and other year is less than 1 billion. Please learn how government works?
@@joeisawesome540 well said , So many people still don't believe the climate is changing and effecting all area's of Canada , , They need to look at there own Alberta Government
@@m2mcfall The "wildfire" started during clear skies. I grew up here and there were never mass wildfires every year. This is caused by eco terrorists pushing Agenda 30. Go look at Alberta governments fire data, and you'll see that during 2020-2021 there were virtually zero wildfires in Alberta, because no one was in the parks and they were pushing the jab. This is caused by PEOPLE, not lightning.
Jasper is the jewl of Canada it's breathtaking beauty is a true treasure. The sentimental love of our tourism retreat is a care of all Albertains. With care we are watching. 🔥👨🚒👩🚒🧑🚒🌲🌳🌲💐🏞💕
This has been predicted, and observed over the last several years! It's a sad irony that the Province that ignores the situation that we're in, gets hit the hardest....🤷
@@guycalgary7800 whats so funny? He's telling the truth. Parks Canada has not been managing the forest in the case of a wildfire. People have been calling for proactive burns for years but still nothing.
It’s ironic we never used to have these crazy fires every single year until Trudeau took office and has since been cutting funding to firefighting and has just recently this year sold off 7 of our water bombers. “Predicted” yet the government does nothing
@@PhilSophia-ox7eplmao government makes things worse. Literally we have these harsh fires every single year now ever since Justin Trudeau took office and just a few months ago sold off 7 of our water bombers to Greece. One of his biggest talking points/attacks against conservatives is “how Canada is literally burning” yet the government has been cutting more and more funding to firefighting
@mikemailloux3771 . You might want to rethink your ignorance. During those times, 90 % of the first responders to forest fires were the Logging crews in the bush. If a fire started, they would divert their logging show to fight the fires within 24hrs. This knocked down many fires before they got out of control. truedeau and his liberal party made that illegal. trudeaus ministers and supporters in provincial government positions told the logging companies that they would lose their licenses if they stepped in to fight fires.
Canada doesn't "send money to Ukraine"! But I find it odd that you'd pick on Ukraine, when the Premier of Alberta actively legislates against mitigations to these disasters, and lobbby's for subsidies, IN THE $ BILLIONS, for the very companies that are contributing to climate change...!?
@@jamescarlton3086 Canada gives FAR, FAR, FAAAAR more money to profitable corporations, and religious organizations than they do to Ukraine! In fact, we give equipment, or buy equipment for Ukraine! We don't actually give them money!
@@chrishogan8125Yeah we do. In the billions. And much of it is laundered back to the liberal party. It’s a money laundering operation. You have to be pretty dim or naive not to see it. So obvious.
This makes me so incredibly sad this morning. At a loss for words. Jasper has been so important to me throughout my life. This news is really a gut punch.
As long as no one gets hurt everything will be fine, most people in the area have 4 or 5 other properties they can move into.
I fully agree, can not stop tears. So many years of loving to go there and such a special place just gone😭
Hopefully this helps Canadians understand that we need to change if we want this to stop, and that it's still possible if we do.
Same here, many memories throughout life. Can't imagine fighting these fires is such heat, must be horrible.
It's one of my favourite places too. It is so sad to think about Jasper Park Lodge and any other structures that are being lost. 😢
I’m from Costa Rica and 12 years ago I moved to Jasper. Lived and worked there for almost 5 years. This is the place where I made some of my best memories of my life , friends and where I also met the love of my life. Breaks my heart to see what’s happening to a place I once called home.
Stay strong but most importantly, stay safe.
As teens, my best friend and I hitchhiked across Canada to spend the summers of 1971 and 1972 camped beside the pristine Athabasca River. The town of Jasper meant so much to us and changed our lives forever. I'm heartbroken.
Born and raised there. Heartbroken. My heart home.
Just returned to England from a holiday in Canada. visited beautiful Jasper and stayed at Jasper Park Lodge. Can’t believe it. Desperately sad.
It's all gone now...
Cool don't come back
@@stuppittyheddont worry your next
@@stuppittyhed If you have nothing nice to say in future, don't bother saying anything at all.
Huge rain last night. Thick cloying yellow smoke now. No wind. More rain expected today.
I was searching for this. Thank you. I seen the radar for jasper last night and was praying for lots of rain last night. This is good news and hope for many. Bless you for posting this comment.
@@CaliDawnhey, i dont have FB and i hear that 80 horses have been rescued and need temporary residence. We're by Sangudo and have lots of available free grazing to share. Do you know anyone with any info on this at all?
Well the city will never be close to the same it’s sad for the people and I really wanted to go here for holidays and now I can’t the rain doesn’t matter they just need to protect the important places like the Hostipital and Water source hope they can find something to save the city cause rn it’s gone half the town was destroyed…😭
Rain came too late.
@@clairefarnell9489
Perhaps try reaching out to the Alberta SPCA. They may be able to direct you.
Thank you for thinking about the animals that have been displaced.
It's sad. My wife and I were married there 12 year's ago and the places we visited there were so welcoming to us our hearts go out to everyone there and stay safe
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R u still with her?
@@jingojingo1 yes why you ask
@@shawnhunt1262 oh ok thought she dumped you.
@@SalvableRuin sorry mam I don't get why you posted that what are you the alphabet police
People should give thanks to God that not one life was lost, I am thankful for that, my prayers are for you.
First the mountain pine beetle came through, killing hundreds of thousands of trees around the town. Now fire is coming through, and those trees are just so many torches. And they're all around, north, south, east and west of the town.
Good point, forgot about this
More like the feds came through and torched everything. Wake up people. You’ve been attacked. Time to fight back.
I would like to think Mother Nature is doing what she does best. get rid of the old, From the burned will spring new trees. But, this fire was not set by Mother Nature.
They should have been harvested and replanted 8 years ago.
Climate change is a bytch
My heart goes out to all those who are affected by this devastation. God bless the firefighters trying their best.
@@andrewepp6763 does your heart break tbst your premier doesn't care
@junkfoodguy it's a national park and that falls under federal jurisdiction.
@@junkfoodguy Foreign bot that cannot spell correctly with each and every post.
@@junglecat-v8v Smith bot
@@junkfoodguy fail, not a smith supporter.
Thank you, Lisa for the reporting in the dangerous area🙏
So sad, God Bless the people fighting the fire.
Last year I was flying out of Prince George, and about 100 firefighters from Mexico were in the airport getting ready to fly north. Thank goodness I speak Spanish so was able to thank them for their efforts- what an incredible sight to see!
And it is not their wood, yet they help.
End right-wing rhetoric. End unfettered capitalism. They are both killing us all.
So sad for the people of Jasper and its the significance of the historic structures. Praying for rain.🙏
My heart is there with you.
In 2018 I honeymooned with my boyfriend at the Maligne Lodge. One of the MOST beautiful moments of my life. Now I heard about the fires...my heart is broken. A big hug. We are with you.
Daniele & Diego
with DEEP LOVE from Rome, Italy.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
As a former evacuee from fort Nelson our prayers are with you
My heart is breaking 💔.
I spent many years there and this is awful 😢
Everyone stay safe 🙏
This is heartbreaking .
I was just there last week :( JASPER family reunion ... my grandson Jackson, who will be one and a half years old next week, I was telling him all the things we'll do there when he's a bit bigger. Heartbreaking~praying for containment of the fire, & help from rain to get it put out.
I was just there a week ago. As someone born in Kelowna I get the the feeling of loss. Keep it up crews and people of Jasper. You will raise from the ashes. Alberta strong!!as long as no firefighters or people are not lost, you win the battle. Things and structures can be replaced. ❤
how about you be more careful with what information you give out online before someone steals your identity
Grew up in Edmonton and spent so many summers camping in and around Jasper skiing in the winters. Incredible sad for the locals and the town. An ICON of Alberta😭❤️🇨🇦
Absolutely devastating. Prayers for the firefighters and the families that have homes in jasper as well as business owners.
This breaks my heart. I went to Jasper two years ago. Such a beautiful park and quaint little town. I have wonderful memories from that trip. I hope most of it can be saved
Ladies and Gentlemen, if you are the "praying-type," [like me] now would be a great time to pray.
I pray because i am Christian 😂
I prefer to look for scientific fixes.
How about something useful? Make the Gov regret cutting wildfire funding, and denying climate change.
@@philipbaker4970agreed
@@philipbaker4970Why not do both?
Alberta is a rich province and with the number of fires we get every summer this Province should have a Provincially owned fleet of fleet if Canadair water bombers
That would stop the plan though??
It's a federal park and Ottawa robs Alberta of tens of billions of dollars every year. Give Alberta the parks and our money then you can complain about what Alberta did or didn't do.
It would if they listened back in 2017 ot if we didn't give 12 billion yo ukraine that's 300 water bombers for the country smh
And those water bombers need permission to be deployed in the National Parks.
There are many deficiencies that need to be corrected.
For one, you can't have someone from another part of the country making uninformed decisions about our National Parks. Nature doesn't work that way. Give a local body more authorty when working with a national body regarding risk management in our national parks.
Pledging help only after a region is destroyed ridiculous.
@@Sotto_ No you deploy them anywhere in the province as needed including the National Parks and if the Feds have a problem who cares.
I visited the park three weeks ago. The trees that died from the Pine Beetle infestation 5 years ago were still there up on the hills. Parks Canada never removed them. They became part of the landscape to the point where regular visitors just didn’t notice them anymore. Obviously they added to the intensity of the fire.
You think after last year, they would make a real effort to remove the deadwood to avoid making any future fires possible or worse.
But now people will blame this on climate change like this is the reason a wildfire is raging here or anywhere else.
damn 😔
And if they had removed them, you'd be whining about how much it cost...
I grew up in Hinton and Jasper was my backyard. I have more memories, surrounding Jasper, than almost any others. Sending love and support to all the Jasper residents during this time of tragic loss! 💔
How come there are so many fires happening in Canada in the recent years? How come? I don't remember any of this happening when I was a kid?
The climate changed.
@@zachweyrauch2988 climate change so fake though.
@@DeeLee-ry9qhso we should cut out firefighting jobs aell off waterbomber make sure we call other countries help fight fire but won't cost taxpayer's anything
You understand things change right?
Jfc read a book.
@@stuppittyhed but Smith budget blew it on oil ceos ND planes from khan
Living in Banff for almost 30 years, this has always been a worry of mine that it’ll happen here…
It's only a matter of time for Banff. The provincial and federal governments don't care about protecting these towns with water bombers or preventative measures.
Yep they just leave all the fuel sitting there. It's pathetic.
@@elephantom12Why doesn't the government care about protecting Banff? Are they on record stating as much? What should they be doing to prevent Banff from burning?
How did it start, arson again?
Lightning.
It’s under investigation
Most wildfires start naturally, not from arson. It’s part of the natural lifecycle of a forest…..humans are just in the way.
Give it up with the arson narrative and just admit for once in your life that the science in the 1800s proving carbon dioxide is a green house gas is real
@sdot5389 no they don't actually. But it depends on the region.
Jasper is my favorite place to visit, and my heart is broken now. Usually, I visit jaspet twice a year, and it's too sad to hear this new 😢 God. Please help us please protect people and animals in jasper!
Beautiful Jasper…May God protect you and engulf you with rain, safety, and peace🙏🤍🤍
@lunalu3 …God isn’t real. They don’t need your false prayers
@@AugustusFloopGod is very much real and I have seen His miracles. Prayer is very powerful! I pray for the people of Jasper and the firefighters that they remain safe and guarded by strength of Jesus Christ. I also pray for you, AugustusFloop, that you will feel the love and power of God and allow Him into your life. In Jesus name, Amen 🙏.
Amin🙏🏽
Amen
@@AugustusFloop Go pray to your god Justin Trudeau 😂
I was burnt over and through in Torrington NSW 2371in 2019, you will recover just like we did since then. Our love, prayers and respect is on its way to you. From Torrington NSW 2371
Very sad news , I visited this beautiful area September 1998
Stunning beauty , it’s really heart breaking
Jasper has been a tinderbox for years. Anyone who knows, knows the fire was going to be big. This is heartbreaking.
Please explain.
@@imacmill I mean want do you need to know? He said it himself, it has been a tinderbox basically meaning it has been so bone dry that it was perfect for a fire to break out. It's that simple really.
@@Mykst So who/what is responsible for that bone-dryness, and what should have been done about it to prevent this fire?
@@imacmill Well the dry conditions are what you'd call a *drought* - caused by a severe lack of rain in the area. The prevention? A whole lot of worldly team effort to tackle a rapidly changing climate beyond what should be natural to prevent areas closer to the Arctic from seeing high temperatures that shouldn't be happening in those regions. It's just common sense.
@@Mykst What 'common sense' shall we bring to bear on a rapidly-changing climate? Give us something practical and achievable, taking into account what we know about human nature.
This is so so sad! For anyone who’s visited or lives in Jasper, you know it’s an absolute Canadian gem. Stay safe my fellow Canadians. 🇨🇦🍁🫎🦫🛶🦌🦅🦆🦉🐦⬛🌲🏕️
What caused the wildfire?Human made or the hight temperature ?
same picture. other than that one, can we get actual updates on this
Updates will likely follow when the fire moves away from the town. Safety first. Fires are extraordinary.
Exactly, she says there are multiple pictures but only show one.
@@johnwalker1471
There are lots on social media, but they need to get permission to use them.
It's a little difficult to do that when those people are in the middle of evacuating.
I visited Jasper once before and it was so beautiful, I instantly fell in love with it. This is honestly so shocking and sad to see such a wonderful place be burned like this
Billions wasted on untold government bureaucracy and special interest projects here and all around the world, but we can't fight fires right here in Canada. Or choose not to.
All your money is in Ukraine, or rather in Zelensky's Swiss accounts
You can’t fight a roaring fire. When you have high wind, and low humidity, a fire is almost impossible to control.
We're all the blame for how fast climate is changing.
Government has nothing to do with fires.
That is how fast we stopped caring for our planet. The government could do better. But the world is just getting worse.. and we as humans are NOT doing anything to change this.
you are not very bright are you
What do you think "money" could do for Jasper right now? Talking ☑️ Thinking ❎
I discovered this place for the first time only a couple of week ago. I feel sorry to see such a place turn into ashes. My heart with locals stay strong.
It's amazing we talk about climate change but we do nothing to mitigate before this happens, it's call park management. Cleaning out underbrush, dead fall and control burns like the Indians did. If climate change is such an issue mitigation is keym
@AellaMaude-oy9qnYou just gonna completely ignore the controlled burns part of what he said?
@robbarber7253 most people oppose the risks from controlled burns that would be necessary.
@@ttonAb2 Most people know fk all about firefighting
Are we all going to ignore the unsurprising occurrence of someone typing right wing rhetoric also calling them "Indians"?
Or consider that there is no way anyone ever cleared and managed a million square miles of forest or even the fraction of that which is populated and park land.
If you want brush clearing and controlled burns, then go ahead and petition the government to spend the billions of dollars to get that done, and accept the tax increase needed to find that money, or the national debt consequences.
And prepare for the consequences when a decent percentage of controlled burns get out of control causing more of these situations.
I have been to jasper twice in my life and it was beautiful I sincerely hope that anyone who is helping to put out the fire is ok and manages to put out the fire
I have been watching satellite images through out the night and there has been rain over the jasper town site and much of the park over night
so hopefully this will have given the fire fighters a much need hand in tackling the fire, have to wait till the sun rises there to see what's happening
and see if the rain was able to knock down some of the flames
Thankyou for mentioning something no one else noticed.
Rain!!!!! Not everything has to be supreme doom
Yesterday officials mentioned it wouldn't make a big difference with the rain, but we will see what happens today. I still have hope.
The smoke is worse now and the town is already burned.
I too watched the radar and seen rain was coming over Jasper last night. Believe for more rain to stop the fire and devastation in Alberta and British Columbia ❤
@@pawsforblessings127 did the entire townsite burn?
Blue Tarp season is officially in full swing. Stay safe...
Hon. Steven Guilbeault Minister in charge of Canada’s National Parks. Federal Jurisdiction.
But who cut funding
@@junkfoodguyno shortage of money for Ukraine
@junkfoodguy the liberals and if you say no the conservatives then the liberals didn't put it back so they are equally if not more at fault considering the wildfire risk wasn't as large when the conservatives were in power federally.
@@sheldonbosch7340 yet it was aelll of water bombers help fight fire lol
@@sheldonbosch7340 here come aussiea helpout Alberta what does thst asy premier whst tbst costing Alberta just aayn
was just there on vacation in june. such a BEAUTIFUL PLACE. i am so sad for the people and animals and plants impacted. Ty Jesus for no deaths
I'd say every year it has been wild fires on every summer. Like damn
Hope we don't see the fires of the 1930's again.
80% arson to push climate change thx Trudeau
fires*
Prayers for the people of Jasper.
When a society wastes tax dollars on items that are irrelevant it leaves empty coffers for crucial firefighting equipment and improvements. Politicians need to do better.
The idea not having SCBA is mind boggling.
Some of the things our Govt. Is spending on.
$351.2 million Job funding Cdn Summer Jobs Program,opportunities for disabled, non-white and L
$10 million Cdn Heritage for funding minorities in media.
$25 million for "anti-hate" and community programming.
$11 million "museum space in Toronto to Sikh arts culture,
$26.8 million for Policing supporting hate crime training for police
$3 million was given to Pride festivals Gender Equality
$12 million to fund "projects to combatting hate against the 2SLGBTQI+
$4 million to a mental health fund for Black Canadians racked up $750 million since 2018get
$16 million Sport Support Program, for "advancing DEI accessibility
$91 million for communities to "document, locate and memorialize burial sites at former residentia
$5 million has been set aside to combat "residential school denialism
$630 million Indigenous mental health this year and next.
$168 million over the next five years will go to "combat anti-Indigenous racism in health care."
$5.5 million went towards the "revitalization of Indigenous laws and legal systems"
$25 million for the Indigenous justice strategy,
$1.3 million, which would send phone alerts for Indigenous woman goes missing
11 billion spending Indigenous portfolio in 2015 now $33 billion in 2022
We’re more worried about paper straws and charging for take out containers
Yeah, we should stop giving tax breaks to oil and gas companies and buying failing pipeline projects
@@doctamoneystacks You should investigate how much tax revenue is generated for the AB and Cdn Govts from Oil & Gas Operations, how many jobs are created from oil & gas, and the economic effect for auto dealerships, heavy equipment, hotels, restaurants, etcetera etcetera. Then maybe you'd have an informed understanding.
I can't believe I'm only like a few hours from this historic town I can literally smell the smoke 😔😔😔😔
So can everyone to the south and east...
I couldn't see the ridgeline, only 2 miles from my house, the other day.
And I live 1300 miles from Jasper.
@@codymoe4986 I got you bro I got you
I JUST FEEL SORRY FOR WILDLIFE
Then they want to hunt grizzlies
Wildlife have legs
Forest fire creates the most life out of any planetary cycle. It renews the earth. We have let all these forests ahead far past what normal cycles would have allowed. Creating massive fuel stockpiles that aren't harvested and managed because feelings. Then it burn down in a few years anyway. Because that's how it works. We have history of forest fires blazing for 10years straight in BC before humans started managing it.
@@Bryan-dn1nx What's wrong with that?
Sending prayers to Alberta .
You're a little late.
so the lodge is engulfed in flames but the trees around are not burning?
Well if you knew anything about wildfires instead of implying the government lit it on fire those trees have no fuel under them and the structure was ignited from embers falling from the air.
The JPL has not been reported as burning ; only the grounds. Time to wait until the fire passes Jasper so accurate footage can be obtained.
Depends entirely on what kind of roof is on the building. Embers can travel a couple miles in the wind, then fall onto shingles made from tar, ignite the roof. Once the shingles are burning, there is no stopping the fire. Goes even faster if the roof is made from cedar shingles.
The thing that amazes me, how many folks that have no knowledge of, or experience with wildfires suddenly become 'experts' online when fires are happening. I'm sure you were an immunology expert in 2020, and a flood expert in 2022 as well.
@@gerryrozema8338 including you stating that asphalt shingles are ignitable from embers, they are largely considered resistant to ignition.
You should have payed attention in grade two science guy
My children born and raised here,we are all heartbroken,our lives are changed forever,how could this happen to all of us,we have been in Jasper for 23 years and never ever could anyone imagine something so diabolical coming our way and destroying everything,we are absolutely devastated!Sorry ,but we do not know how to keep going ....
We will need to wait till sunrise to see the true story of what happened overnight. The community, the livelihoods of many, business owners - this is a reminder of Ft. Mc a few years back.
They'll never tell the TRUTH ..
@@AngelaM-s4o please enlighten the normals on who they are and what the truth is.
now that time has passed, can you expand on what the true story is?
Despite 420+ wildfires burning in B.C., The BC Wildfire Service sent four fire engines along with 17 firefighting crew members to Jasper late Wednesday night. I don't know if that includes the 2 engines and 8 firefighters from the villages of McBride and Valemount, BC volunteer fire crews.
Prayers for the people of Jasper, and for the safety of those fighting the fires.
Despite Jasper selectively logging for the last decade around the townsite to reduce fuel density.
Lol wrong
not enough, obviously. They left some for "scenery" I guess.
@@leonniceday6807 Indeed, not enough, or poorly performing fire fighters.
This makes me unbelievably sad. I love Jasper and the last time we visited we promised we would come back with our baby.
I am so so sad for the people of Jasper. I hope the fire gets under control and the town can be restored.
God help all
No need JT will come help!
Carbon tax should stop those Forrest fires no ?
@@SnailGameHereToFkU learn to spell before you type
@@SnailGameHereToFkU Do you really not understand the desired future effect from the current CT applied today? Jasper has no benefit from a CT implemented in 2019.
@@TruthBomber-d4o it was a sarcasm, sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
Such a sad news! I love Jasper so much and this makes my heart break.😢
Why couldnt they get 30+ farmer sprinklers that shoot 100's of feet ? Pump it off the river and pre soak the town? We have terrible management in Canada.
You do know structures aren't built for that type of water, you aren't the first genius to think of this, millions in flooding damage is better than wildfire to you I suppose?
Presoaking the town is useless >> the heat of the fire has that dried up in 30 seconds. Your comment clearly shows your lack of understanding and experience with wild fires or even structure fires. One structure fire can days to put out; this fire is candling at 300-400 feet and is huge.
@@user-bu3nj5dn6v Noo. I used real world examples to inform me. Search google "Fast action and sprinklers during Prince Albert wildfire avoided 'millions of dollars' in damage" There are dozens of cases of this. Last year an entire community in Salmon arm saved their neighborhood because they built sprinkler infrastructure when they built the subdivision that pumps off the lake to pre wet homes. as they are remote with little to no fire access across the lake.
@@ttonAb2 If you think Jasper is at risk of flooding? Nothing can help you, They are at the base of some of the largest mountain ranges in the world and are designed by nature to take millions of years of Glacier flow. We aren't talking about Toronto.
@@ttonAb2millions in water damage or permanently destroyed buildings that are never coming back...then millions in fire damage AND water damage from the firefighting efforts anyways?
0:30 so the house is engulfed in flames, but the pine trees which are extremely flammable next to the house are okay, suspicious
So we just dictate whdt should grow around there property?
So you have concluded from your reviews that it is suspicious how?
@@TruthBomber-d4o tou tell us since smith supporter
that's not a wild fire.... that's trudeau lighting fires
ah, a mature and sensible comment.
Sending prayers from Hot Springs Arkansas, USA
People aren't going to be able to accept it when full disclosure comes
Not at all!! The majority have zero clue what is happening and what reality we live in 😢❤
We just had a terrible disaster and you're here for what? Why not show some class and offer condolences.
@@Tikara-r7f I like a conspiracy theory as much as the next one, so please share what is really happening....
@@junglecat-v8v with the " natural " wildfires? They are not natural melting point of porcelain, steel ect is higher than wildfires burn-- compare the photos from lahona, California Canada Chile --to photos from 1990 any year before 2015- they are directed energy weapons
Educational purposes only
do people who advocate unsupported conspiracy theories have relationships, careers, savings, and comfortable lives?
Was it pine beetle fires getting out of control
Why, the last couple years towns and cities are being destroyed on a regular basis. Seems nefarious
If you don't understand why this is happening, it's a you problem.
All going according to plan. You're almost there. Keep digging.
On a regular basis? uhmmm.. ok.. lets see the list. Ill wait?
@@tool235 What is going according to plan?
@@Sp-nd6uj Agenda 2030
Climat change is here, now its the time of conséquences
Albertans are some of the most responsible people for these fires in the entire world. Sure, Alberta is only a small percentage of the world, and Canada is only a small percentage of the world, but if you add up all of the harm that climate change is going to do in the future, it's quite a lot that we're responsible for relative to our small size. Some people are praying to a god, but if there is a good, he is probably pretty angry.
What a ridiculous comment. These fires were not caused by oil.
@@ttonAb2 They were made more severe because burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide which increases global temperatures, which increases evaporation, which makes wildfires burn bigger. Your choices are causing more of the world to burn and will continue harming people for centuries to come.
@@ttonAb2yes they were.
So very sad 😢I hope everybody is safe and sound 🙏🏻❤️
This is absolutely ridiculous and sickening and should NEVER have happened...just should never happened .. seems suspicous very suspicious on why this happened....
It's suspicious at all if you read books and educate yourself instead of listening to rebel media and other Nazis
Agenda 2030 is the answer..do search about it
suspicious how?
....and you have deduced what from this?
I visited there for the first time from Nova Scotia literally last week, this is giving me chills
💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔WE PRAY FOR YOU 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Toronto
Prayer is useless.
Billions of dollars paid to Alberta to mitigate these fires, to cut back the brush, to clean up the abandon wells, to clean up the tar ponds where animals are dying. And the money has not been used to mitigate fires, to clean up water or to do anything useful to the population. Where has all that money gone when every year we see these fires over and over and over again? Alberta has no management. But of course, this will be blamed somehow in some suspicious way on Trudeau, because it's Alberta. I'm just surprised Pierre Polivare isn't out there hawking T shirts.
Billion spent on oil patch ND pipeline
Ppl complaining about sending AB’s money back to them is just comical. The country pilfers AB, and you cry when they get a bit back and don’t spend it how you think they should. 😢 harder.
@@firstandforemost87 why is premier spending millions on ads move there
@@junkfoodguy
Why can’t you form a coherent sentence?
@@firstandforemost87 why are defending Smith?
Please get the resources the firefighters need! Get more aerial support! Come on PM act quickly and decisively. Praying for everyone and all animals. 🙏🏻
Where is our military helping to protect our national treasures?
Ordered to stand down because its Alberta.
The military that is having the recruitment crisis? They're running training missions in Europe right now I think.
Not sure they would help much here.
At the same time the government cant pay canadians enough to sign up to fight wildfires.
@@zachweyrauch2988 Canada? The Provinces hire their own fire fighters, and in Alberta's case, cuts their funding...!?
@@ryanhogan359 wasn’t the fire in a “national” park?
@@ryanhogan359 ya that's true of where I'm at in nova scotia too. Volunteer fire fighters in town are a social club with how many there are but we still spent weeks asking for outside help.
Maybe it's time we had federal fire response resources.
Is it true that it has been officially decided that Maligne Lodge is gone forever because Google says permanently closed?
Build your home in a forest , there's a risk of losing it to a fire. Build your home on a river's floodplain , there's a chance it gets flooded .
You could that those who build their near the edge of a hill near a ravine and risk of the home going over the edge numerous homes that done that.
Lemme guess, you built yours in the perfect spot!
So very sorry for this enormous loss of wildlife and property.
If only our PM didn't send over 100 billion to Ukraine, should be taking care of Canada first. So sad.
Well, we never send 100billion.
@@joeisawesome540They've sent over 10 billion which pales in comparison to wildfire funding. Not sure why you would stick up for a government that cares more about a foreign war than its own people.
@@joshanderson924 well, I stick with a government that cares about people having bombs landing on their head? Do you not care? Btw, we spend billions of dollars each year to fight fire.
@@joshanderson924 btw, we didn’t give any money to Ukraine in 2021, and fire was just as bad! You think giving money to Ukraine is making our forest fires bad? Plus, we spend over 1 billion dollar a year to fight fires. There is no set budget for fire fighting. It is used as the needs are required. So some year it is over 1 billion and other year is less than 1 billion. Please learn how government works?
@@joeisawesome540 well said , So many people still don't believe the climate is changing and effecting all area's of Canada , , They need to look at there own Alberta Government
Omg, all the wildlife there too. My heart is crushed for how much wildlife is perishing right now. 😢
We have arsonist in the loose, who could that be...
Deja vue.
There were lightning strikes last weekend. I saw them from a music festival I attended just out of Hinton.
@@m2mcfall The "wildfire" started during clear skies. I grew up here and there were never mass wildfires every year.
This is caused by eco terrorists pushing Agenda 30. Go look at Alberta governments fire data, and you'll see that during 2020-2021 there were virtually zero wildfires in Alberta, because no one was in the parks and they were pushing the jab. This is caused by PEOPLE, not lightning.
Jasper is the jewl of Canada it's breathtaking beauty is a true treasure. The sentimental love of our tourism retreat is a care of all Albertains. With care we are watching. 🔥👨🚒👩🚒🧑🚒🌲🌳🌲💐🏞💕
Another 'perfectly normal fire' that destroys homes in prime real estate areas, while leaving trees, etc, untouched, I wonder?
These fires are man made these aren’t wild by nature , it’s disgusting ,
DEW, just like in Maui. The devil is real....
Bingo! Suspicious indeed!
@@morgangentle1515 lightening ?
If I've learned anything about wildfires in these comments, is that it sure brings out the paranoia.
Don't let them pump you full of fear. Forest fires have been happening for hundreds of millions of years. Its mother natures housekeeping.
Better to be afraid than completely stupid.
This is caused by eco terrorists, not lightning
Stupid that a town on a lake doesn't have enough water pumps and sprayers to make it rain.
Jasper isn’t on a lake, it’s on a river.
@@sdot5389wow that really clarifies this.
😢😢😢😢 praying for jasper
Why did the Alberta Government wait so long to ask for help? Kind of stupid on their part. So sad.
Do you understand how many wildfires are on the go in Alberta right now and how fast these things move? Think.
@@bs9710i really don't think this is true . Every National park is still in a province. So you know this is true or feel this is true?
@@Grubbbee National Parks, under the jurisdiction of the Federal Govt, is a factual statement.
No lives lost🙏
This has been predicted, and observed over the last several years! It's a sad irony that the Province that ignores the situation that we're in, gets hit the hardest....🤷
Lol , ok.
@@guycalgary7800 whats so funny? He's telling the truth. Parks Canada has not been managing the forest in the case of a wildfire. People have been calling for proactive burns for years but still nothing.
It’s ironic we never used to have these crazy fires every single year until Trudeau took office and has since been cutting funding to firefighting and has just recently this year sold off 7 of our water bombers. “Predicted” yet the government does nothing
A bear cub being electrocuted and starting the fire has been observed and expected?
Should we ban bears? Or maybe electricity?
Are these fires being deliberately set ?
9 most terrifying words in english:
"Im from the government and im here to help"
Without government help you'd be nowhere and Alberta would be worse off
@@PhilSophia-ox7ep 😂😂
Holy cripes wee got some dumb ones today.
@@GentileWart Let me know when you got an argument my prepubescent pal
@@PhilSophia-ox7ep ehatever you say commie
@@PhilSophia-ox7eplmao government makes things worse. Literally we have these harsh fires every single year now ever since Justin Trudeau took office and just a few months ago sold off 7 of our water bombers to Greece. One of his biggest talking points/attacks against conservatives is “how Canada is literally burning” yet the government has been cutting more and more funding to firefighting
Such, beautiful area, town. Sad 😢
Hey trudeau, how many water bombers have been purchased over the last nine years...?
Zero maybe he can ask Putin to lend a few of those jet powered amphibian water bombers they have
As many as Harper, 0. As many as Klein 0.
@mikemailloux3771 . You might want to rethink your ignorance.
During those times, 90 % of the first responders to forest fires were the Logging crews in the bush.
If a fire started, they would divert their logging show to fight the fires within 24hrs.
This knocked down many fires before they got out of control.
truedeau and his liberal party made that illegal.
trudeaus ministers and supporters in provincial government positions told the logging companies that they would lose their licenses if they stepped in to fight fires.
@mikemailloux3771 . I replied to your post, but it was removed by youtube.
I guess what I said was to full of facts.
@@paulachenkonobert3802 TH-cam monitors attempt to remove all misinformation, personal threats, and stupid comments.
So very sad - I can't even imagine the loss and pray everyone stays safe.
The gov't should have taken these fires more seriously.
wasn't carbon tax to be used for some of this
they want the country to burn
These fires are from DEW’s and are being purposely set. Wake up.
@@Bryan-dn1nx NOPE, you don't get the function of the carbon tax..
@@Bryan-dn1nx You should really get educated on the intent and the eventual effect of the tax many years into the future. Not today. Simple reading.
These arsonists need to be stopped
They have not determined yet if intentional arson, accidental negligence, or lightening.
Send more money to Ukraine
Right? Because they're much more important than protecting Canada.
Canada doesn't "send money to Ukraine"! But I find it odd that you'd pick on Ukraine, when the Premier of Alberta actively legislates against mitigations to these disasters, and lobbby's for subsidies, IN THE $ BILLIONS, for the very companies that are contributing to climate change...!?
@@jamescarlton3086 Canada gives FAR, FAR, FAAAAR more money to profitable corporations, and religious organizations than they do to Ukraine! In fact, we give equipment, or buy equipment for Ukraine! We don't actually give them money!
Yeah that would help stop SpongeBob and Patrick stop starting up camp fires
@@chrishogan8125Yeah we do. In the billions. And much of it is laundered back to the liberal party.
It’s a money laundering operation. You have to be pretty dim or naive not to see it. So obvious.
Thank you rain