UPDATE 4: Posted at 02:27 MT
#Jasper, #Alberta evacuation continues.
Reception centres open in #Valemont #BC as well as #GrandePrairie and #Calgary #AB.
#ABfire
#BCfire
#wildfires
#EvacuationOrder
#ABroads
#YellowheadHighway
#Hwy16
#Valemont
#YQU
#YYC
UPDATE 3: in #BritishColumbia, #YellowheadHighway is closed (eastbound only). Highway remains OPEN westbound for Jasper evacuees.
Info from Drive.bc:
> Fort George / Highway 16 Eastbound
Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway), eastbound. Limited visibility with smoke between Hwy 5/16 JCT at Tete Jaune and BC AB Border for 76.6 km (Tete Jaune to British Columbia and Alberta Border). Road closed.
#Hwy16
#ABroads
#BCroads
#Jasper
#EvacuationOrder
#wildfires
#ABfire
#BCfire
The Highway of Tears refers to a 724 km length of Yellowhead Highway 16 in British Columbia where many women (mostly Indigenous) have disappeared or been found murdered. The Highway of Tears is part of a larger, national crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. ...