Jasper Alberta has burned to the ground. Please send your prayers.
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Jasper is my hometown. Half of it is standing so it could have been worse, the firefighters were heroes last night. They had bad luck with lightning starting the fires only like 3 days ago and then it moving super fast and then spread by wind and fortunately everyone was evacuated. There wasn't a fire in a hundred years and pine beetles did a number on the trees so nature has a way of burning it all and restarting the process. The government was probably being their incompetent selves not having more logging and controlled fires in the past. They will rebuild but instead of nearly every business being owned by a private local it wouldn't be surprising if the corporations move in.
Every street corner will be a McDonalds-Starbucks-CircleK
Agree. I’m in Alaska and the Pine Bark beetles that have left hundreds of acres of dead trees in the forest provides prime fuel for a lightening strike. We have had large forest fires for the last 20 years because of this. I highly doubt it was intentional.
Yeah I would agree except every time there’s a fire like this.. metal burns at a higher temperature than forest fires.. so it doesn’t make since…