Fires in the Okanagan: How to Help
On Thursday, August 17 as the sun set behind the mountains with a beauty that can only be found in the Central Okanagan, smoke was rising with a blood orange glow in its wake. The sound of helicopters and planes that were seeking to suppress the fires died down and people stood eerily quiet watching flames head towards the city and towards homes of friends and family. The event then turned more dire as messages from friends and social media lit up with news of embers beginning to jump the lake causing more fires and more evacuations. Since midnight on...