Okanagan Mountain Park Fire

[kiwilover01]

my house was on the road they called ground zero! It burned down unfortunately!

[PikuSonic]

Thank you to the firefighters once again/ Even if that was long ago. o.o

[Quailize]

I was nine when this happened.

I remember watching as the blaze consumed home after home.

It was a very sad summer for the Okanagan.

[burn5500]

still can't beleive I got evacuated

[burn5500]

That was a year I'll never forget and seeing it near my house was scary. Godd thing my house did'nt burn down

[NationalPro]

me too.

[54321freakshow]

@burn5500 were was it

[burn5500]

@54321freakshow on kelownas westside

[shantrues]

I remember driving back to Kelowna from Penticton and seeing the fire burning on the other side of Okanagan Lake. Very sad. The pictures accurately showed how horrible this was

[Lizard4lyfe]

that was 6 years ago for me I was and still am still in Penticton...it makes me sad to think of such devastation

[DerekZaleski888]

I was 8 when this happend and I was living in alberta at the time I could see the smoke for there

[belkinman94]

song is requiem for a dream or something like that.. from lord of the rings. i dont think thats where it originally came from but its the same song

[belkinman94]

i would have been just a couple weeks old during that.. this video really makes me glad i wasnt old enough to see for my own eyes.

[NationalPro]

Couple weeks old? So your 5 years old???

[jackoroma3]

whats the song?

[MysticMomentss]

this was the worste time ever. It was tough to go through but luckily no lives were lost. I was stranded on a road because fires had started on each end of it. Nicklebacks video so far away uses live video footage of this fire.

[NationalPro]

I bet ur thinking of a different fire, stranded on a road doesnt make sense in this fire, and the footage from nickelbacks video isnt this one either.

[dhbiker08]

That has to be one of the craziest summers the okanogan has EVER had. i dont live anywhere near kelowna i live 5 hrs away, but all my moms side of the family was evacuated from there homes because they all live in kelowna. my grandmothers house also burnt down and she coudnt get enuf stuff to evacuate with. that was a ver sad summer for kelowna and the okanogan

[DanDanOnly]

I live in Winfield, just outside of Kelowna and I remember my family not worrying about it coming to Winfield but then they were talking about how they might have to put homes around Beaver Lake in evcuation alert.

Also, my aunt and uncle were evacuated. Very creepy summer.

[BXV2]

1:12 is a very scary picture, thise fire was not something i want to ever have to experience again.

[NationalPro]

i remember when i was evacuated i got to see that exact scene, and it looked like a nuclear bomb went off.

[BXV2]

i remember the night early on when the wind cought the fire and the whole of downtown was like a warzone covered in ash and falling of small debries blown by the wind. i was working that night and i had to get a ride home because it would have been impossible for me to breath since i have asthma.

[Bullseye569]

Nice job. I liked the fact you included the '3 years later' portion, and showed how well the park has regenerated. Well done. I should upload some of the photos I took....from the planes above the fire at the time.

What is the music on the first audio track?

[katiesuz7]

i remember seeing that fire actually when it started to creep over the mountains in penticton.

it was just horrid.

i dont think i went to the kelowna area at all after that fire started.

and legrandlol i grew up in ok falls.

and it hasnt changed except for the fact that the lumber mill there just shut down.

[katiesuz7]

i remember seeing that fire actually when it started to creep over the mountains in penticton.

it was just horrid.

i dont think i went to the kelowna area at all after that fire started.

and legrandlol i grew up in ok falls.

and it hasnt changed except for the fact that the lumber mill there just shut down.

[katiesuz7]

i remember seeing that fire actually when it started to creep over the mountains in penticton.

it was just horrid.

i dont think i went to the kelowna area at all after that fire started.

and legrandlol i grew up in ok falls.

and it hasnt changed except for the fact that the lumber mill there just shut down.

[johnnycanuck2]

this fire was crazy, like i was in Osoyoos and i could see the smoke up in the sky so i drove down to Summerland and it was just umbelievable

[yeldarb65]

i remember being in the water at gyro beach and looking at the mountain and seeing that odd orange glow, i i yelled out to look over there and everyone on the beach just froze, one of the most tense moments of my life, followed by the most tesnse months of my life due to the fire

[legrandlol]

i use to live in okanagan fall's the day i moved there there was the fire...i was like OMG this is the biggest forest fire i have ever seen but i didn't live near the fire...i lived in okanagan fall's so no one got evacuated..if u could take pic's of Ok fall's every year plz..because right now i live in quebec...and i wanna c if OK fall's changed, ty :)

[NationalPro]

I dont live near Ok falls, and of course you wouldnt be evacuated anywhere near OK falls lol.. thats like an 1 and half hour drive away from the fire. and yea i think it was the biggest fire anyone had ever seen around here.

[j1orda8nb7oudreau]

At 28 seconds i might have been there when u or someone took that pic

[fruitb0Oter]

i was evacuated for this but before i was evecuated i had a prefect view of the fire from my window. i lived right by the lake where we could here the water bombers flying by and actualy watch them refill. as we were being evacuated we could see black smoke from burning houses

[rhinoL3]

ausome Work , fr: Kamloops

[markyman20]

I live on Mt. boucherie, so I had a perfect view of the fire, and I filmed lots of it.

[jordanlacrose]

that year sucked and this video is made very well

[Hse07]

I was living in westbank, but away on vacation at the time....we could not even fly back, we had to take a bus from Kamloops

[cameronklim]

very Great video im from vernon and know what it was like my gf lived right down the road from where it all happened

[NationalPro]

i live right down the road as well. lol

[cameronklim]

Lol, she now lives down gerstmar but at the time she live right down the road and it was quite the scarey thaught of seeing the fire so close.

[stjared]

Good pics, i dont think you took all those pictures tho, lol