My house was about 10km from the East edge of the Stoddart fire.
Never got any closer or farther after the first 24 hours due to the wind shifts kept blowing it back on itself. CO and SAR guy came to the house a week ago to notify me of the Evacuation Order and that I should leave, but the CO acknowledged that the air quality was better in my yard than in town.
Fort St John was put on evacuation alert, and half the town lost their [bleep] minds. Fuel line up hours long, people filling tanks/tidy tanks/every [bleep] jerry can they owned, only to post them for sale an hour later for $100/jerry. People doing 120kph running lights and stop signs in the middle of town holding down their horn and flashing their lights.
Fear is apparently quite the motivator for some folks.
20 hours of driving rain yesterday knocked it down to nothing.
