UBC forest researcher posts video of harrowing wildfire escape

After filming her harrowing escape from the B.C. wildfires, a Vancouver forestry researcher worries that with ongoing climate change such devastation is now “the new normal” for the province.
Dr. Sally Aitken, associate dean for research and innovation at the University of B.C.’s Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, said a two-week vacation to her recreational property in the west Chilcotin region was cut short Monday when smoke nearby grew and she and her