North Shuswap resident Kyle Boppre offers a simple explanation when asked why he defied an evacuation order issued as a wildfire bore down on his neighbourhood.
A report authored after B.C.'s 2003 wildfire season called for a massive effort to clear fuels from the province's forests, but just a fraction of that work has been completed.
Tourists quickly disappeared as the province urged people to leave the Central Okanagan to make room for evacuees and emergency crews who were in desperate need of accommodations.