B.C. wildfire evacuees 'didn't have time to get anything'

KAMLOOPS — When Ester Spye left her home on the Ashcroft Reserve on Friday, the fire was just a few hundred metres away. The flames were approaching, the air was thick with smoke and she could feel the heat on her skin.
“I thought I was safe because (the fire) was down at the end of the reserve, but it came up the gully and we had to go fast. I couldn’t save my cat, he wouldn’t come to me. I got my dog but I lost my house,” Spye said through tears as she stood outsi