Dramatic video shows UBC Prof's escape from BC wildfire

It’s a heart-pounding perspective of the BC wildfires and it was all captured on video.

In a video posted to Twitter and Youtube, Sally Aitken shares footage from the passenger seat of a vehicle escaping the flames of the Hanceville, BC fire on Sunday evening.

“Hwy 20 was open and it was still daylight above,” she writes.

Hanceville is located about 90 km west of Williams Lake

Aitken, who is a Professor with UBC’s Faculty of Forestry later Tweeted that she had made it safely through the blaze and back to clean air.

Thanks to the steel nerves and awesome driving skills of Jack Woods @Use_Wood we are safely back to clean air. https://t.co/PVs6BUMVNw

— Sally Aitken (@SallyNAitken) July 11, 2017

See also

• More homes evacuated, highways closed as BC wildfires continue
• State of emergency declared as wildfires rage throughout BC (PHOTOS)
• BC Wildfires: Here's how you can help with relief efforts