A woman watches as smoke rises from a wildfire burning near a school bus depot on the edge of the Cariboo region city of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada July 21, 2024. Spencer Stratton Photography/Handout via REUTERS
Several wildfires in the Canadian Rockies’ largest national park sent up to 25,000 visitors and residents fleeing west over the last open mountain road on Tuesday, navigating through darkness and soot after a government alert during the area’s busiest tourist time of the year.
“It’s wall-to-wall traffic,” Carolyn Campbell, an Edmonton resident, said by phone from her vehicle.
