Wildfires send about 25,000 fleeing from Canadian Rockies’ largest national park and nearby town

Multiple wildfires in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park have sent up to 25,000 visitors and residents fleeing west over the last open mountain road. They navigated through darkness and soot early Tuesday following a government alert during the area’s busiest tourist time of the year. Hundreds of wildfires are burning in western Canada, and those fleeing Jasper National Park and Jasper town in Alberta province were given the unusual order later Tuesday to make a vast U-turn east if they needed a place to stay. That's because to the west, British Columbia province already has more than 300 wildfires of its own.