It wasn’t the Welcome Wagon banging on Alycia Butler’s door.
Not at 1 a.m.
Butler – who, along with her partner, Dave, and their son Hemingway, lost their North Shuswap home in the Bush Creek East wildfire a few weeks earlier – was alerted to a spot fire near their Scotch Creek rental home in the early hours of Thursday, Sept. 14.
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