Robert Pullen and his husband, Warren, got a knock on their door on Thursday night from a neighbour, and estimate they had about 10 minutes to get out the door.
A fast-moving wildfire was approaching their home on Knox Mountain in Kelowna, B.C.
Outside Kelowna’s Prospera Place arena, which is hosting evacuees, the Pullens chat in lounge chairs in the parking lot, having decided to leave a local mall where other evacuees had gathered and partied. “There was a lot of people gathered around sitting and having good time,” Warren said. “Having a good time in this circumstance is difficult to think about.”
“What’s going to happen? Who knows? It happened so quick and, you know what? Tomorrow we might not have a home,” Warren said. Megan Michaluk was at her home near McKinley Beach, watching the McDougall Creek fire across the lake from her patio and thought she was safe.“It was terrifying to see how quickly it was just completely consuming the west side,” she said.
The blaze, Kenney said, was tearing through Traders Cove on the western shores of Lake Okanagan as winds brought embers across the water. But they didn’t think it would jump the lake. Kenney, her husband, their 17-year-old daughter and a friend visiting from Washington State made a quick plan to get out and meet in a grocery store parking lot.
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