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“You would think a whole house, when it burns, it would take up more space,” West Kelowna resident Annick deGooyer said after seeing her destroyed home.
Video taken by Global News during a media tour of the North Shuswap on Wednesday shows untold blackened and scorched trees.
There have been more than 2,087 fires in the province since April 1, scorching more than 2.25 million hectares of land.
Posted: February 9, 2021 By Bob Ede Op-Ed Commentary On any given day plenty of ice fishing shacks dot Lake Windermere during the winter months. I don’t ice fish anymore. The truth is I never was very good at it. Not like my grandfather, father and brother who would often bring home nice fish. This is back in the day when every house cellar had a spike in a beam for hanging Ling so they could be skinned. This is back in the day when ling were common in Windermere and Columbia Lakes. Ling are rare in the lakes now. Their demise may have been brought on by overfishing, or possibly the specie...