Harrowing video captures terrifying drive from British Columbia wildfires
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — At first, the drive didn’t seem too bad.
Sally Aitken and her husband decided to leave their cabin in British Columbia’s West Chilcotin region due to wildfires on Sunday. They were not ordered to evacuate, but had been without power for days and the only highway out had recently reopened.
As they drove along Highway 20, they saw nothing overly dramatic: light smoke, burned trees. Then they suddenly found themselves in the middle of an intense blaze, with flames leaping on either side of the road and smoke so dark they could barely see.
“Your choice is, when it gets bad, do you turn around … and then you have to go through what you’ve already been through, or do you just keep going? We just kept going,” recalled Aitken in an interview.