Last Thursday night/Friday morning I was out at a nearby beach on the Okanagan lake. As much as I wished the reason for being there was a late night party, what I and the others around me were engaged in was watching in horror as a gigantic wild fire jump up a cliff from behind a ridge line and then start dancing down the mountain. I don’t know how but fire fighters were able to stop the advancing fire as it raced to enter the neighborhoods just below the top of the ridge but they did. The ...
