On the day two homes were destroyed by flames in an upscale Vancouver neighborhood last month, the sound of dry trees burning reverberated down the block.
“It was the scariest thing I have ever heard,” said Terri Kaufman, who lives down the street from both homes in the Old Evergreen Highway neighborhood.
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