I was settling into my comfy chair last night for an episode of CBC's "Ideas" when this regularly scheduled program was interrupted by "live" coverage of fire in the lower Fraser Canyon. Apparently Lytton, a city that had, over the three days prior, broken our country's heat record, was in flames. (The cause of the fire was unknown, but reports this morning said it likely started from a rail spark and was brought to town by rising winds.)
CBC Vancouver's afternoon drive show host Gloria Macarenko did well to keep listeners informed as to what was happening, juggling a range of callers who don't normally phone in to radio shows, but did so in this instance as a public service, aware that listeners might be driving into areas of no return. Randy from 100 Mile provided a nice mix of information and humanity, while others fell prey to the CBC's tendency to mine emotions, as if getting a guest to cry is a journalistic achievement.
Curious to know more about the actual dimensions of the fire, I went online and found a great vid (above) of some Lytton aunties racing for their car and tearing out of the parking, cursing.
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