Fogswamp - a story

A new account of the fire has been published in the online Salt Spring News. It is written from the perspective of John Edwards' sister, Trudy Turner.

An excerpt:

Nowadays, Trudy Turner lives near Hagensborg, outside Bella Coola. But she went back to Lonesome Lake a week ago, flown in by helicopter, along with her brother John Edwards, who'd continued to live at The Birches, to see what was left of both homesteads. "There's nothing left, not even a charred bit of log left," she said over the phone, her voice strong. And angry.

The smoke was thick as brother and sister tried to view their properties. "What I saw, was a wall of fog, a wall of smoke in front of me. We had to creep along from fir branch to fir branch. You could make out the white line the water leaves along the shore," said Turner. "It needn't have happened," she maintains.

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