All the time.
That is how retired Kelowna fire chief Gerry Zimmermann still responds today when people ask him about the Okanagan Mountain Park fire of 2003.
“People have not forgotten. For those who weren’t living here then, it is hard to explain,” Zimmermann said of those days in August 2003 when the city was threatened by a wildfire initially sparked by lightning in Okanagan Mountain Park.
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