Bonaparte Valley residents remember Elephant Hill Wildfire one year later
CACHE CREEK, BC — July 6th marked the one year anniversary of the start of the Ashcroft Reserve Fire, a fire that on July 7th would take off through the hills to the west of Cache Creek, cutting off power to the region and causing the evacuations of thousands of residents in the TNRD and CRD.
The fire eventually grew to over 190,000 hectares; it was finally 100% contained on September 29th, 2017, nearly three months after it first started, but for many of those residents who lived through the 2017 fire season, the trauma still remains.
The Cache Creek Fire Hall was quiet on Saturday, a far cry from one year ago, when the Elephant Hill Wildfire took off through the hills west of town.