Bill Newman is a Quinte area resident, who is a contents claims specialist for E-djuster
A Quinte area resident is seeing first hand the massive devastation wildfires are having on British Columbia.
Bill Newman, a Contents Claims Specialist for E-djuster (insurance) is currently visiting some of the most heavily damaged areas the wildfires have hit.
A look at the aftermath of wildfires in BC (Photo: Bill Newman special to Quinte News)
Newman has visited Cache Creek, Boston Flats, Ashcroft and Williams Lake BC, to see what kind of financial damage the fires are having.
From Kamloops, he tells Quinte News the in one instance, several square blocks has been leveled.
A chopper overhead in BC (Photo: Bill Newman special to Quinte News)
He says it is destruction on a massive scale.
Nothing left of this vehicle but a shell (Photo: Bill Newman special to Quinte News)
Newman adds for the people effected, it is very emotional.
A look at the aftermath of wildfires in BC (Photo: Bill Newman special to Quinte News)
Newman was in Slave Lake Alberta in 2011 and in Fort McMurray in 2016 when the fires spread through those communities.
He says they cannot go some places right now because it is not safe.
A look at the aftermath of wildfires in BC
(Photo: Bill Newman special to Quinte News)
Following the long weekend they will be right back out looking at others homes and communities.
