Captured by Fire author talk
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November 13, 2019
Location: Kamloops Public Library
Address: 100 - 465 Victoria Street
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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2019-11-13 18:00:00
2019-11-13 19:30:00
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Captured by Fire author talk
Meet debut author and homesteader Fred Reid at a slide show, talk and signing for his new book, Captured by Fire: Surviving British Columbia’s New Wildfire Reality ($24.95, Harbour Publishing). Reid co-authored Captured by Fire with bestselling author and wilderness dweller Chris Czajkowski.
The illustrated talk, which is centred around the experiences described in the book, focuses on one of British Columbia’s worst wildfire seasons on record. In 2017, wildfires dominated the headlines and in and around the towns of 100 Mile House, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Princeton and Williams Lake, nearly ten thousand people received instructions to evacuate immediately, and some of them would be unable to return to their homes for months.
But when the evacuation order came, not everyone left. Both Reid and Czajkowski stayed behind to protect their properties, animals, and livelihoods. Living in remote areas, they both knew that their homes would be of low priority to officials when firefighting resources were deployed.
Captured by Fire alternates between these two authors’ dramatic first-person accounts of their experience throughout the summer. As lightning strikes started new fires and strong winds fanned existing ones, alerts fluctuated and even the fire fighters pulled out. Both authors eventually had to decide: when is it time to go?
Their chronicle makes a fascinating and at times harrowing read for anyone interested in the ongoing wildfire problem in this province, and what it’s like to live through it up close.
Kamloops Public Library 100 - 465 Victoria Street
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Meet debut author and homesteader Fred Reid at a slide show, talk and signing for his new book, Captured by Fire: Surviving British Columbia’s New Wildfire Reality ($24.95, Harbour Publishing). Reid co-authored Captured by Fire with bestselling author and wilderness dweller Chris Czajkowski.
The illustrated talk, which is centred around the experiences described in the book, focuses on one of British Columbia’s worst wildfire seasons on record. In 2017, wildfires dominated the headlines and in and around the towns of 100 Mile House, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Princeton and Williams Lake, nearly ten thousand people received instructions to evacuate immediately, and some of them would be unable to return to their homes for months.
But when the evacuation order came, not everyone left. Both Reid and Czajkowski stayed behind to protect their properties, animals, and livelihoods. Living in remote areas, they both knew that their homes would be of low priority to officials when firefighting resources were deployed.
Captured by Fire alternates between these two authors’ dramatic first-person accounts of their experience throughout the summer. As lightning strikes started new fires and strong winds fanned existing ones, alerts fluctuated and even the fire fighters pulled out. Both authors eventually had to decide: when is it time to go?
Their chronicle makes a fascinating and at times harrowing read for anyone interested in the ongoing wildfire problem in this province, and what it’s like to live through it up close.
