North Shuswap resident Kyle Boppre offers a simple explanation when asked why he defied an evacuation order issued as a wildfire bore down on his neighbourhood.
“They got lucky it wasn’t like the case in West Kelowna where people stayed back and then they had to get rescued behind fire lines by firefighters.”He said a friend who tried to return to the area to join the fire fight encountered a police roadblock and when he tried to turn around he was chased down, his truck confiscated, and he was not allowed to return to his property in an evacuation zone.
“The government folks, the provincial folks that are trying to quote unquote save our properties,” he added. “Clearly they’re not here.” “Evacuation orders must be followed. They are not suggestions, they are the law,” she said. “When unauthorized people are in evacuation areas, it escalates the danger involved for everyone.”Jules, like Boppre, stayed behind despite an evacuation order and kept a sprinkler going on his roof.Jules said the band had put sprinklers on several community buildings including the school and health centre. He estimated about 70 per cent of the community complied with the evacuation order.
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