Nearly 50 people gathered at the Salmon Arm Library to hear Chris Czajkowski and Fred Reid recount the nearly two-month-long fire evacuation order at Kleena Kleene in 2017.
The event inspired Czajkowski Reid to write a book together called Captured by Fire: Surviving British Columbia’s New Wildfire Reality. The authors are coming to the Greater Vernon Museum and Archives on Wednesday, Oct. 9, for a book signing.
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The 2017 wildfire season destroyed more than 1.2 million hectares of land, more than $649 million in fire suppression was expended and more than 65,000 people were evacuated over the course of the record-breaking summer.
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