Summerland wildfire ‘sounded like a freight train,’ evacuee recalls

Tom Joseph has lived in his fair share of Canadian towns.
But never has he seen a community come together in the way Summerland residents have over the last four days.
Joseph is one of the more than 20,000 people who were ordered to leave their homes on Friday night, Aug. 7, as the fast-moving Bald Range wildfire raged on in Summerland.Sitting next to his truck in a lawn chair alongside his dog, Molly, at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre (PTCC), Joseph said on Tuesday it was surreal to