The fire at Rose Valley and the Glenrosa area have both been contained and the mop up is all that is left. Some 17,000 people had to evacuate their homes. Anxiety hung in the air like the gray smoke clouds that wafted over the lake to cover our neighbourhood in the North End. For two days we had ash raining on us. Today many people were allowed to return home at 5 pm.

The news that the Terrace Mountain Fire has doubled in size and is headed Fintry way to Vernon is not good for those who live along the lake on the Westside. Our friends Dale and Donna Zeitch who are organic gardeners and owners of Little Creek brand we imagine to be out of their home tonight. The Cove or Lake Okanagan Resort Hotel had no electricity today and was on evacuation alert earlier today according to the radio news.

Following twitter has been a great way to keep up on events. Reports of fire trucks headed to Gallagher’s Canyon came through. We know now that the fire at Tolko was in a saw dust pile. It was extinquished. The Mission Creek fire was stamped out quickly. A house suffered $2,000 worth of burn damage in Rutland which is an area that has been experiencing fire bug activity for months now.

On the news tonight we saw the fire fighters attack lightening-ignited blazes around Summerland very quickly. I was filled with admiration and anxiety as I watched a plane dive in a parallel path to the surface of the earth down a valley side and drop the orange-red retardant. What these pilots do is astoundingly courageous.

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What does it mean when the news release says that a fire is 20% contained? Twenty percent of what? These numbers mean very little to the public.

I have been experiencing difficulty with my breathing because the air has been so heavy with smoke and floating particulates. Today I felt as if my head were as heavy as a bowling ball and my chest was reluctant to take a big breath in. I had to use my “puffer” several times. The cloud from the Terrace Mountain Fire looked like a castle last night as the sun set.

July 22 picture of Terrace Mountain Fire