Images, videos of intact homes in Jasper offer hope amid massive destruction

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Published 2024-07-27
Images, videos of intact homes in Jasper circulating online offer hope amid massive destruction. Hiba Kamal-Choufi speaks to one evacuee who’s hopeful to ‘rebuild the town’ even after he lost his home.

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  • I'm glad that most of the town is still okay, but coming from someone who went to Jasper almost every year as a kid, it does pain me to see the place like this. My heart goes out to all who lost their home/business in the fires.
  • @rodneythur8754
    The horrific toll on wildlife will never be known. It is so sad to see the damage the fire did, and all the lost homes. Bless all of you who lost your home, your livelihood, and precious possessions. Bless all of you who fought the fire, and who are working on restoring power and water.
  • @tengotnco5942
    Could a town water reservoir be considered as one option to protect itself from wild fire using industrial grade sprinkler?
  • @jerrycann6374
    Hope? want to live in a forest you have to accept that your house will not be there just like those who build on a flood plain and seemed shocked when they are flooded out.
  • @caperboy1169
    Smoke and or water damage will raise the number of losses
  • @VikingMale
    Oh look a blue home wasn’t burnt, just like the blue homes in Maui…
  • @user-mj6gq6vo9u
    Where are the houses? All I could see was a man with glasses. Lol
  • @millipedic
    All new construction should be fire proof brick. buffer zone of several kilometres between town and forest. Renewable energy within Jasper Park and electric vehicles only.
  • I'm sorry what kind of news is this? There's already bunch of news covering this and they are actually there recording and broadcasting what's going on but this??? What is whole point of this news? "Oh I took a video of houses that are not burnt and this will give people hope" is that it?? This is getting more and more ridiculous.
  • @douglasbaker3344
    Canada needs a major investment in wildfire fighting. Instead of sending billions to other counties i suggest a new division or ministry that has at least 50 to 100 water bombers and a contingent of ground people to fight this issue, we need to rethink this because its not going to get better
  • @gulfy09
    So maybe the carbon tax can rebuild the lost homes.. after all where did all the money go to
  • @apoc519
    FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR hope FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR
  • @iFortold
    Ok, who wears a leather jacket as a reporter?
  • Who is gonna tax all that carbon ??? How much will it cost ,and can we repay cash mother nature for the stolen carbon,,if only carbon would be plant food....if only.....
  • @rexybigwoo
    And this could all be fixed in a week if people came together but society is divided and most of you are in the Matix bots bots I tell ya