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I haven't seen a thread on this topic, but as reported:
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He likened the fire to a nuclear disaster. “Can you imagine the amount of energy released by 50,000 burning acres of timber? The mushroom clouds of smoke rise 30,000 feet.”
Friday night, residents packed their clothes and keepsakes into their vehicles and jammed the roads as the hills around them glowed orange with the flames. They found refuge in community centers, and with friends throughout the valley. Some even drove two hours to towns like Kamloops to find hotel rooms....
Unofficial reports say as many as 300 homes have been destroyed so far, 30,000 people ordered evacuated.
While I don't have any relatives, my girlfriend, and most of her mom's family have been evacuated over the weekend. Her family has lived in Kelowna for more than 100 years, with several orchards, all not to far from the last reported locations of the fire.
I visited just the last week, and you could see a much smaller fire at night, glowing on the hills, while during the day you could not see across Lake Okanagan due to all the smoke from the fire.
Hopefully the fire will be dying down, but then again, they said this on Thursday, before the fire grew 5 times.
Please keep these folks in your prayers, that the fire will be contained.
A choice excerpt:
He likened the fire to a nuclear disaster. “Can you imagine the amount of energy released by 50,000 burning acres of timber? The mushroom clouds of smoke rise 30,000 feet.”
Friday night, residents packed their clothes and keepsakes into their vehicles and jammed the roads as the hills around them glowed orange with the flames. They found refuge in community centers, and with friends throughout the valley. Some even drove two hours to towns like Kamloops to find hotel rooms....
Unofficial reports say as many as 300 homes have been destroyed so far, 30,000 people ordered evacuated.
While I don't have any relatives, my girlfriend, and most of her mom's family have been evacuated over the weekend. Her family has lived in Kelowna for more than 100 years, with several orchards, all not to far from the last reported locations of the fire.
I visited just the last week, and you could see a much smaller fire at night, glowing on the hills, while during the day you could not see across Lake Okanagan due to all the smoke from the fire.
Hopefully the fire will be dying down, but then again, they said this on Thursday, before the fire grew 5 times.
Please keep these folks in your prayers, that the fire will be contained.
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