this pic was taken by the daily courier news paper crew. Wind whipped the Okanagan Mountain Park fire into a new fury Friday night, setting perhaps hundreds of homes ablaze and forcing the evacuation of an additional 23,000 people.
Another two fires have started on the other side of the lake, and they seem to be undercontrol at the moment. 500 fire crews men are working all day. They cannot work on putting out the fire at night, thats when it is in god hands.

“There is nothing you can do to fight a fire like this. It’s a once in a lifetime interface fire. We’ve never had a fire sweep through a community like this.”

There are 8,000 people are on evacuation alert.

There were some jack@$$e$*french* who drove further in than the firefighters. Some people see a fire truck and they think they’ve got to follow it. They have no right in the world to follow it.

People should just get away while they can, and stop making things worse.



Winds over 70 kms an hour were pushing the fire at 100 meters per minute straight toward Kelowna. It created what is called a "firestorm level 6", with open flames travelling very quickly, jumping from tree to tree.