KELOWNA — The eerie calm on the Kelowna waterfront Saturday morning was broken by the faint percussive chops of helicopter blades in the distance.
There were semblances of normality — people walking their dogs or cycling down the path along the lakefront.
Simpson, along with hundreds of others, had gone up a hillside on Thursday night to watch the McDougall Creek wildfire across the lake when embers began blowing across the lake, sparking a spot fire nearby.“You saw fire going up hundreds of feet in the air,” he said. “The whole massive mountainside hillside was ablaze.”
She lives in West Kelowna and watched her neighbourhood burning on Friday night as house after house went “candling” up in flames.Waking up Saturday morning was “pretty tough,” she said, but she feels lucky that she had the time to pack up and get out of her home before things took a turn for the worse.
Teahan uses a walker and has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so he was slowing his usual pace to get some relief from the smoke.
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