Part 2 – Summer Communications intern, Ayden Harrison, shares her experiences of the 2021 wildfires from her home in rural Lillooet, BC The worst feeling is the unknown. Wildfires had forced people from the communities surrounding Lillooet to evacuate. With the memory of Lytton, burned to the ground, still fresh, the evacuees were scared. When would they be able to return home? Or, if they did, there might not be anything to come back to. The same day that my town flooded with people displaced from the Lytton wildfire, another wildfire had picked up speed again — the McKay Creek wildfire out in West Pavilion. That night, it jumped the river and was on the highway side. There is a ...
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