Jasper, TX

CBS News

Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada — One of two raging wildfires menacing the town of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies' largest national park roared into town Wednesday and began burning buildings.Jasper National Park officials said the fire entered the southern edge of the community Wednesday evening and crews were battling multiple structural fires and working to protect key infrastructure. There were significant losses in some areas, they said. Forest firefighters and others without self-contained breathing apparatuses were told to evacuate to the nearby town of Hinton, with structural firefighters staying behind.Parks Canada spokesperson James Eastham told reporters outside Jasper that the...

Raging wildfire reaches resort town in Canadian Rockies' largest national park

A forest fire at a major national park in western Canada reached an evacuated town on Wednesday evening, with the army preparing to send in reinforcements. The fire was spreading through Jasper National Park and destroyed several buildings in the town of Jasper, which had been evacuated on Monday night, according to park officials.

Forest fire reaches town in Canada's Jasper National Park

The Associated Press

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies that had prompted 25,000 people to flee roared into the near-deserted town of Jasper overnight as a “wall of fire,” devastating up to half the structures in the picturesque resort, officials said Thursday. There were no immediate reports of injuries, following a mass evacuation of the town and a neighboring national park earlier in the week, but Jasper Mayor Richard Ireland said in a letter on the town’s website that the wildfire “ravaged our beloved community.”  “The destruction and loss that many you are facing and feeling is beyond description and comprehension, my deepest sympathies go out to each of you,” he said. He said he was writing with “profound sorrow as we being to come to terms with the devastating impact.”  Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta province, said from 30% to 50% of the town’s structures are potentially damaged. “We don’t know which structures have been damaged and which ones are destroyed, but that’s going to be a significant rebuild and significant displacement,” Smith said.

Fast-moving wildfire in the Canadian Rockies ravages the town of Jasper

New York City, NY

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Lancaster County, PA

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Milton, FL

New York Post

A gunman killed by Yellowstone National Park rangers as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at the entrance of a dining facility with about 200 people inside had told a woman as he held her at gunpoint earlier that he planned to carry out a mass shooting, park officials said Tuesday.

Park rangers shot back and killed the man during the attack Thursday morning.

Yellowstone officials identified the lone shooter Tuesday as Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner, 28, of Milton, Florida.

A park ranger who was wounded was released from a hospital but not identified.

The shooting led authorities to close off Canyon Lodge, a complex...

Gunman killed at Yellowstone dining facility earlier told a woman he planned mass shooting

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Alaska State

Williamsburg, VA

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Virginia State

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Ronkonkoma, NY

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Texas State

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Montana State

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Fox News

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North Dakota State

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Detroit, AL

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Wildfire burns structures in a town in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park

GRAND PRAIRIE, Alberta (AP) — One of two raging wildfires menacing the town of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park roared into town Wednesday...

Wildfire burns structures in a town in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park

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