B.C. residents take stock of fire damage while another blaze forces closure of Alberta highway

KAMLOOPS, B.C. _ Twenty-four hours after being allowed to return to their homes, residents of Barriere and Louis Creek, B.C., were busy Sunday taking stock of the smoke and fire damage and beginning the lengthy clean up after forest fires ravaged their homes. [Dennis Lalonde] lives in Barriere'...

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Published inCanWest News p. 1
Main Author Amy O'Brian and Wendy-Anne Thompson
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Don Mills, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 10.08.2003
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Lalonde, Dennis
KAMLOOPS, B.C
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Summary:KAMLOOPS, B.C. _ Twenty-four hours after being allowed to return to their homes, residents of Barriere and Louis Creek, B.C., were busy Sunday taking stock of the smoke and fire damage and beginning the lengthy clean up after forest fires ravaged their homes. [Dennis Lalonde] lives in Barriere's Green Tree Estates _ a community of about 90 modest homes that sits directly across a two-lane road from the burnt remains of a wooded area. The Verendrye Creek fire in Kootenay National Park _ a 45-minute drive from Radium _ has doubled in size, creating havoc for fire crews trying to stop the out-of- control blaze from reaching the busy Bow Valley.