We had a bit of a scary experience on the way home from Prince George this year though it didn't seem too scary when it was happening. We stopped in Cache Creek for lunch and as I was sitting with Oliver outside I noticed it seemed very hot, dry and windy. At this point the only big forrest fire was in 100 Mile house and there was no state of emergency. As we drove through Ashcroft we noticed a fire in front of us though it seemed like it wasn't directly in front of us. We turned a corner however and it got very smokey and we could see fire coming up the side of the road. The car in front of us turned around and so did we.
As we turned around we came across a BC Hydro truck that was shutting down the highway. You always assume there will be some sort of authority figure stopping this sort of thing but that wasn't the case here. This fire went from 50 hectares to 4000 hectares in 5 hours. After we turned around we headed down to Ashcroft to take the 97c to Merritt. As we drove through Ashcroft we could see the fire coming down the hill and RCMP were already shutting down 97c. We just barely got through before they shut down all roads down south. We would have been trapped for a week as other first had developed north of us. This was the day they declared a state of emergency for all of BC.
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