‘It was a violent event, the world shattered’: Fire chief recalls wrath of McDougall Creek wildfire

The wrath of the McDougall Creek wildfire hit the rural outreaches of the community hardest, with the greatest number of structure losses recorded in North Westside. “The fire was intense. It came very quickly. It came with violence. I can’t describe it any other way,” Paul Zydowicz, fire chief of Wilson’s Landing, a community in...