CALGARY — A popular Rocky Mountain resort in Banff National Park was preparing Thursday to move out its guests to make way for crews fighting a wildfire raging in the nearby backcountry. Sunshine Village, a ski hill that also offers summer hiking on the Alberta-B.C. “It’s a much closer location and we’ll be able to have our crews and equipment working from around the Sunshine area,” Kubian said. Kubian said the fire itself was not posing any immediate risk to guests at Sunshine, but Parks Canada asked the resort to clear guests with enough notice so that they could leave in an orderly fashion. Scurfield said the hotel’s 84 rooms were fully booked and Sunshine was working to find alternative accommodations in the area.

Source: National Post July 20, 2017 19:18 UTC