A church retreat came to the aid of Canada's latest disaster survivors
British Columbia experienced major disasters this year that scientists say show the intensifying effects of climate change. Many of those affected by fires and floods took shelter at Camp Hope.
HOPE, British Columbia â A little before dinnertime, people trickle in to sit by the fireplace in the main lodge of Camp Hope, a church retreat center at the foot of forested mountains in this western Canadian province.
They recount how, in late June, a wildfire suddenly sped into their town of Lytton, British Columbia, about 60 miles north.
"It was just a big cloud of like a brown smoke that's creeping up the mountainside there," recalls Alphonse Adams, who belongs to the Indigenous Lytton First Nation.
"Then after that, I guess that wind picked up there, plus the heat and that start coming toward the village there," he says. "I don't call it a town. It's a village. Now, it's not."
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