Posted: Aug 26, 2023 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoKelowna, B.C. residents who are originally from Thunder Bay, Ont. say it's been a scary week watching homes destroyed by fire and breathing air thick with wildfire smoke.
"And going from a feeling of safety on this side to suddenly, 'Yeah, that could be us next. We could be next to lose our houses.'" Bryan's home is on the south end of the city of Kelowna, near its famed orchards, and he'd calculated the odds of it being damaged by fire at less than five per cent."We had all already said that it can't happen to us. It can't jump the lake," he said.Bryan invited people into his home who needed a place to stay and ended up hosting a family of friends and a woman from the Philippines and her five-year-old son.