Jul 15, 2017
…just down the road from us. Perhaps 7 – 10km away. The international airport just a few miles from here has been shut down since 5PM. It is only open to the many many aircraft landing to refuel and to load up with more fire retardant. The fire has now been burning for close to […]
Jul 13, 2017
The winds blew in the right direction for us today. Colin was able to get 1.5 jobs done. If the clouds clear in Vancouver tonight he will be off very early in the AM to do a large size helicopter aerial job. Fingers crossed please. This is a really important one. Thanks for taking the […]
Jul 12, 2017
As of this morning there are 14,365 evacuees. The City of Williams Lake alone, has 10,000 people on evacuation alert. As of this morning there are 163 wildfires burning. 78,000 hectares of land has burned in the province of BC since April 1st. Finally, just this afternoon the fire closest to us in Princeton is […]
Jul 10, 2017
Normally the wildfire season does not begin until the end of July and continues through most of August. It is early this year. Our province/state is burning. Personally that means that our business is totally affected. Everyone wants perfect blue sky in their commercial photos. Not going to happen. Each year it gets worse. I […]
Jul 07, 2017
First we had the floods and now we have the fires. BC is burning. Fire season is here. There are several fires all over the province. In fact the new fire base facility in Williams Lake that Colin was sent to photograph in early June in now surrounded on all four sides by fire and […]