ABOVE: Alison Anderson speaks to Sonia Sunger on Global News BC1’s UpFront.
The Rock Creek wildfire is creating havoc for many, even for those who aren’t under an evacuation order.
Alison Anderson has not been forced to flee her home, but she’s feeling the impact of that wildfire.
Her baby is due Aug. 19 but she can’t reach her midwife in Penticton since the highway has been shut down. Now she doesn’t know what she’s going to do with no medical help.
“We’re under a little bit of stress here,” said Anderson. “We’re down in Midway, bringing down donations to the community hall, trying to make ourselves useful while we await the arrival of our baby.”
She said they cannot get through to the Okanagan at all at this time. “We’ve been told maybe in a complete emergency they might let us through in an ambulance on the highway to Penticton but at this point it’s unlikely. We will have to travel to Nelson as our backup plan, which is two-and-a-half hours from our home in Greenwood.”
Anderson and her partner are also taking food to the evacuees to help those who have been forced from their homes.
“The fire situation is just so horrific, we just have to hope and pray that things improve in the next couple of days before I go into labour.”
“It’s so smoky here, I can only imagine what it’s like in Rock Creek,” she added.
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