Fires in western Canada have burned homes and ripped up trees, laying them down 'like toothpicks'.
Joanna Kelly is a barrister in the Kelowna law courts - this week she's been given permission to appear in legal cases by video-link partly because she has very few formal clothes to wear. They, and most of her other possessions, went up in flames last week.
"It was blindingly bright and then it would get into a house," says Joanna, as she describes watching the wall of fire from a vantage point on the other side of the lake. "There was a raging fire going through a skeleton-like building and it went from one to the next until there were dozens of destroyed structures."
It's still too dangerous and risky for Duncan, Joanna and other residents who lost their homes to return and pick up the pieces. But, from the vantage point of a boat on the lake, the devastation is clear to see.What's apparent is the indiscriminate nature of the wildfires. In parts of the waterfront communities, where houses back onto the forests, several homes have been completely destroyed by fire. House after house has been gutted.
He and many others with years of experience in this field are in no doubt that the increasing impact of human activity on the environment must bear much of the blame.Fire chief Jason Brolund says he's concerned at the increasing intensity of Canada's wildfire season The biggest fires may have been tamed, but there is still a significant threat as new seats of fire start up at various places in the tinder-dry forest. I watched as a small team of helicopters swooped over a local lake, scooping up water in huge buckets to try and douse a big fire on the other side of the valley that was clearly of concern to the authorities.
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