When the wildfires around the North Shuswap region first started in July 2023, Jim Cooperman wasn ... inching toward the communities along Shuswap Lake, about 60 kilometres northeast of Kamloops ...

Lasting nearly two months, from mid-July to the end of September 2023, it surrounded Shuswap communities like ... went out on the lake and soon saw thick clouds of smoke. "The smoke was so dense ...