Annick deGooyer knew her family’s home of more than 20 years had been destroyed by the McDougall Creek wildfire that consumed scores of properties in West Kelowna, B.C., about three weeks ago.
But she expected more to remain than the pile of “ashy dust” atop the foundations that she and her firefighter husband Rob Baker viewed last Friday, while on a bus tour of the devastated neighbourhood of Trader’s Cove on the west side of Okanagan Lake.
“You would think a whole house, when it burns, it would take up more space,” said deGooyer.
The Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Centre has been taking homeowners on
