CP NewsAlert: Jasper wildfire evacuees can start returning to townsite on Friday

By The Canadian Press on August 12, 2024.

Details about when and how evacuated residents of Jasper will be allowed to return to their homes nearly three weeks after a wildfire forced them to flee will be announced today. A devastated residential neighbourhood in Jasper, Alta., on Friday July 26, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken

HINTON, Alta. – Officials with the Municipality of Jasper and Parks Canada say residents can begin returning to the Rocky Mountain tourist town in Alberta beginning Friday after wildfires last month forced out some 5,000 people who live there.

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