Firestorm: The Summer B.C. Burned - Hardcover
After three years of unusually dry weather, the British Columbia Interior was ready to explode. All that was needed was a spark to start a conflagration.
By the end of the year, more than 2,500 fires had destroyed 264,433 hectares of forest. A quarter of a billion trees were lost. Three hundred and thirty-four homes were destroyed. More than 50,000 people were evacuated. More property was lost to fire than in any previous year in B.C. history.
Reporters and photographers from newspapers serving the Interior – including the Kelowna Daily Courier, Penticton Herald, Kamloops Daily News, Nelson Daily News, and Cranbrook Daily Townsman – witnessed these events as they happened. With the material they supplied, Ross Freake and Don Plant have written an authoritative text, and selected some 140 stunning, full-colour photographs describing the terrible fires of 2003. Firestorm records the spectacular advance of the major fires, the mass evacuations that affected so many communities, and the devastation the fires left behind.
The book also records details of the heroic battles fought to defeat the fires by volunteer and professional firefighters from across the country. The pages of this book are graphic testimony to the courage, resilience, and resourcefulness of men and women who were pushed to the limit and emerged triumphant.
By the end of the year, more than 2,500 fires had destroyed 264,433 hectares of forest. A quarter of a billion trees were lost. Three hundred and thirty-four homes were destroyed. More than 50,000 people were evacuated. More property was lost to fire than in any previous year in B.C. history.
Reporters and photographers from newspapers serving the Interior – including the Kelowna Daily Courier, Penticton Herald, Kamloops Daily News, Nelson Daily News, and Cranbrook Daily Townsman – witnessed these events as they happened. With the material they supplied, Ross Freake and Don Plant have written an authoritative text, and selected some 140 stunning, full-colour photographs describing the terrible fires of 2003. Firestorm records the spectacular advance of the major fires, the mass evacuations that affected so many communities, and the devastation the fires left behind.
The book also records details of the heroic battles fought to defeat the fires by volunteer and professional firefighters from across the country. The pages of this book are graphic testimony to the courage, resilience, and resourcefulness of men and women who were pushed to the limit and emerged triumphant.
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About the Author:
Ross Freake was born in Newfoundland and attended Humber College and York University. He is a former managing editor of The Daily Courier, Cambridge Reporter, and Kamloops Sentinel. He has worked at ten newspapers across the country from St. John’s to Kamloops, and is currently a freelance writer.
Don Plant is a staff reporter at The Daily Courier who covered the Okanagan Mountain Park fire at the height of the crisis. His wife and two children were evacuated from their home when the fire threatened the southeastern part of Kelowna on August 22. When he finished work that night, he lined up to register at an evacuation centre as flames lit up the sky. The family was allowed home three days later.
Don Plant is a staff reporter at The Daily Courier who covered the Okanagan Mountain Park fire at the height of the crisis. His wife and two children were evacuated from their home when the fire threatened the southeastern part of Kelowna on August 22. When he finished work that night, he lined up to register at an evacuation centre as flames lit up the sky. The family was allowed home three days later.
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- PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 077104772X
- ISBN 13 9780771047725
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
- EditorFreake Ross, Plant Don
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