Emergency Support Services steps up for Okanagan wildfire evacuees

Emergency Support Services steps up for Okanagan wildfire evacuees

By Jeff McDonald, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Peachland Post Leaving their homes under an evacuation order is a painful reality for many people in the Okanagan this summer. Peachland evacuees were able to return home last week but remained under evacuation alert. It’s one thing to ask people to leave in a hurry, but it’s another to give them somewhere to eat and sleep and try to find some semblance of normalcy in their lives. That’s wh…