A resident from British Columbia’s Cariboo region says there’s nothing left around her property on Six Mile Lake other than her burnt-out chimney stack and her neighbour’s propane tank.
Carol Senzeni says she got the news by watching the neighbour’s video posted to Facebook, days after she escaped from the home on Friday with her two cats and anything she could throw in her vehicle.
Senzeni, whose home is about 10 kilometres away from the village of Clinton, says she watched the flames as they neared her home, sending large plumes of smoke into the sky.
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Senzeni, who has found refuge north at 108 Mile Ranch, says the experience was “very daunting” and “very scary.”
She says her cats are homesick, and they’ve been “keeping me up at night crying.”
Officials with the Village of Clinton have said they would be calling residents who lost buildings on their properties from the Pear Lake wildfire, which has grown to about 670 square kilometres.
Just under 50 of 130 wildfires burning in B.C. are out of control, and the weather in the central Interior is expected to return to hot and dry conditions through the August long weekend.
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Senzeni says many people in her neighbourhood went through trauma when they were evacuated during the Elephant Hill wildfire in 2017, which threatened numerous communities across the Interior as it grew to more than 191 square kilometres.
“This wave of wildfires that has come through Clinton and is moving northward and onward into other areas in the north, it’s rekindling old trauma, but also with new dangers,” she says.
Senzeni says the danger isn’t over yet and people in the village have been supporting each other during this difficult time.
F*ck you anonymous. I’m an evacuee from these fires. My husband is back home fighting it. The forest is tinder fart dry and unless we are gong to water and rake the forest large wildfires will persist.
Blaming the gov for something we’ve caused is truly denial.
Anonymous
July 30, 2026 at 1:31 pm
The world is heating up and drying up and there are still people lighting fires when they shouldn’t be … How is government going to stop that ??
By growing a pair of balls. Showing some guts. Doing something, anything at all. But no, government fiddles while the country burns. And folks like you azholes enable it.
The world is heating up and drying up and there are still people lighting fires when they shouldn’t be … How is government going to stop that ??
Once again, truth is censored. Blame your losses on government period. Go after these governments and make their lives hell! Sue the bastards, do whatever we can to through these governments out! Riot, go berserk, take em down any way we can!
They are watching our forests burn! They are shutting of water to food crops here in BC! They do nothing while Canada burns and starves and media is right there with them!
Time to burn the politicians out of their homes like we are experiencing, time to starve the b*stards and shut their water off!