Elephant Hill Gallery
Roy Allan – First smoke in July
Dale Heggtveit – Usually true.
Irene Alcock . . . . . and then it started all over.
Dale Heggtveit Exodus from 100 Mile
Bob White – Some days were smokey. July 29th – Evacuation Order for the CRD side of the lake.
Cheryl Groves – Some days were worse.
Gail Potter – Can it get any worse than this?
Ron-Roy
Nancy Becker – Time to leave.
Valerie Craig – Scary on the southside . . . .
Roy Allan – Noon the day we left.
Valerie Craig – Southside sunset.
Dale Heggtveit – Burned embers were landing in the lawns and on decks.
Andy Palaniak – The shoreline was covered with burned twigs and needles.
Roy Allan – Evacuation Order
Dale Heggtveit – Everyone had to go.
Ron-Roy 2
Bob White – The fight carried on.
Dale Heggtveit – Too much smoke
Smoke in Vancouver – August (no mountains) September (no smoke)
Dale Heggtveit – No one in 100 Mile.
Dale Heggtveit – Blockade at Hwy 24.
Dale Heggtveit – Approaching Cache Creek before the closure.
Dale Heggtveit – Red highway.
Bob White
Roy Allan – We fixed the broken pipe on the dry hydrant just in time.
Bob White
Bob White
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Bob White
Bob White
Dale Heggtveit
Dale Heggtveit
Roy Allan – All the parkland was out-of-bounds.
Andy Palaniak – Sprinkler systems everywhere.
Andy Palaniak – Bladder and sprinklers set up at the Community Hall.
Dale Heggtveit – Bladder at the Hall
Roy Allan – A guard had to patrol the lake to keep curious boaters out of the flight path.
Hollie Miller – Austin couldn’t swim in the lake so he swam in his uncle’s garden.
Jayne Palaniak – What I did on my summer vacation. Well, we were on duty 24/7 for six weeks and . . . . oh, I made a pin-hole camera of the eclipse.
Kathy Allan – The firefighters are working their butts off, but somehow we have to figure out how to pay for all this . . .
Valerie Craig – Might as well go fishing.
Valerie Craig – Something good came of the trip.
Valerie Craig – I caught the best one.
Wayne & Sue Gill . . . .ended up at Moyie Lake – found fires there too!
Dale Heggtveit
Shane Gunn and his friends helped many of the local volunteer fire departments with their tee shirt sale project.
Jayne Palaniak – Military backup – Not quite as much fun as it appears.
Janye Palaniak – Neighbourhood security
Jayne Palaniak
Bob White – There were light shows in the evening.
Bob White – And even better light shows at night.
Irene Alcock – Beautiful, but scary sunrises.
Nancy Becker – The moon shone through.
Nancy Becker
Nancy Becker
Nancy Becker – The back burn added colour to the night.
Irene Alcock – Fantastic air displays by the skimmers and helicopters.
Joanne Macaluso
Joanne Macaluso
Andy Palaniak – The crew pumping for the sprinklers while the skimmers worked the main fire.
Joanne Macaluso
Andy Palaniak – Helicopter snorkelling
Dale Heggtveit
Roy Allan – More water, please.
And they had the best view of the worst . . . .
Andy Palaniak – And then it turned around and came back at us . . . .
Irene Alcock
Irene Alcock
Andy Palaniak
Bob White – Support from the structural crew.
Dale Heggtveit
Bob White – Fire in the grass at Olsen’s Flats
Bob White – Fire Chief, Andy Palaniak
Bob White – Little Green Lake Road
Bob White – Little Green Lake area
Bob White – Smouldering
Bob White – Little Green Lake Road
Bob White – Little Green Lake Road
Bob White
Bob White – Little Green Lake Road
Andy Palaniak – Little Green Lake Road
Andy Palaniak – Olsen’s Flats
Andy Palaniak – Little Green Lake Road at night
Bob White – Dale Heggtveit at work
Dale Heggtveit – Bob at Olsen’s Flats
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Dale Heggtveit
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Joanne Macaluso – After such a terrible summer we had a beautiful Fall.
Gail Potter – The Blockade
Gail Potter – Return home.
Nancy Becker – The community was thankful
Roy Allan – One sign . . . .
Bob White – It will take many years to recover.