‘Welcome Back’: Jasper Residents Return to Homes Following Devastating Wildfire

‘Welcome Back’: Jasper Residents Return to Homes Following Devastating Wildfire
Traffic heads into Jasper, Alberta, on the first day residents are able to visit their properties on Aug. 16, 2024. The Canadian Press/Amber Bracken
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More than three weeks after everyone in Jasper had to flee raging wildfires through a curtain of darkness and smoke, some returned Friday morning, greeted by soot-covered tree stumps, Mounties, and long lines of orange traffic cones.

“Welcome Back” was written on a banner at the RCMP checkpoint into the Rocky Mountain tourist town.