Denise O’Connor is back in Lytton, B.C., living in the home she spent her childhood years.
But it’s not where she was living last summer when a wildfire swept through the Fraser Canyon village and destroyed almost everything in its path, including the house with a river view where O’Connor, 63, lived for more than 30 years.
“I’m not kidding, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing with the smoke,” she said in an interview. “I saw trees on fire. I could tell buildings were on fire. I grabbed some things and we got in the car and left.”
The fire on June 30 roared through Lytton just
