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Trouble sleeping

Man stands beside a red truck loaded with supplies.

Feature image:
Jake Jacobson delivering supplies.

Photo credit:
Niall McNeil, c. 2003

Photo credit:
1.-3 inc. James Murray, Salmon Arm Observer, c. 1998

Smoke in forested hills.

1. Initial strike!

“To this day, on hot and windy summer evenings I still have trouble sleeping.”

                 Fire Warden Jake Jacobson

 

Fire burning in forest hillside.

2. If you were going to set a fire, on purpose, in that valley, and you want to do the most damage and cause the biggest fire, you would set it right where the lightning hit, said a Salmon Arm Fire Warden.

Smoke in the hills.

3. The Silver Creek Fire was a moving target.