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On July 23, service on the CN Rail main transcontinental line through Jasper was suspended, with CN sending one of its firefighting trains to the town that same day. [ 9 ] By the morning of July 24, the south fire grew to 10,800 hectares in size and was 8 km (5.0 mi) from Jasper, while the north fire remained the same size and was 5 km (3.1 mi ...
A 230 hectare fire spawned on Vancouver Island on July 22, 5 km south of Sooke Lake. The fire was held, but required 70 firefighters and three helicopters and forced the precautionary closure of nearby Sooke Potholes Regional Park. [41] [42] On July 28, BC Wildfire Services reported 372 fires, classifying 177 as out of control. [43]
The Yellowhead Highway is a 2,859-kilometre (1,777 mi) highway in Western Canada, running from Masset, British Columbia, to where it intersects Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) just west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. It is designated as Highway 16 in all four provinces that it passes through (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and ...
A firefighter helicopter drops water at the Franklin Fire while it burns in the Pacific Coast Highway in the morning on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 near Malibu, California.
Fire officials said that a "minimal number" of homes had burned but there were no reports of serious injuries or deaths. Crews first responded to the blaze at around 10:45 p.m. local time Monday ...
A post shared on social media purportedly shows an image of a recent massive traffic accident that left 135 people dead. Verdict: False The image is from a 2021 building fire. Fact Check: The ...
The National Highway System (French: Réseau routier national) in Canada is a federal designation for a strategic transport network of highways and freeways. [1] The system includes but is not limited to the Trans-Canada Highway, [1] and currently consists of 38,098 kilometres (23,673 mi) of roadway designated under one of three classes: Core Routes, Feeder Routes, and Northern and Remote Routes.
largest fire in Alberta since the 1950 Chinchaga fire. Timmins Fire 9 Timmins Ontario: May–Nov 2012: 0: 39,540 hectares (97,700 acres) [21] Starting North of Gogama, Timmins 9 was the largest fire the area had seen in nearly a 100 years since the 1911 Great Porcupine Fire. L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire: L'Isle-Verte Quebec: Dec 2014: 32 [22]