- Intro
- Part One
- The Strikes
- Day Two
- The Precipice / Stillwater / Hotnarko Fire
- Fire Smart
- Evacuation
- Preparing for the Fire
- Flight
- The Battle Begins
- Back up the Hill
- Back Burning
- The Fascination with Firefighting
- The Soaker
- A Helicopter-Crazy Day
- The Chilcotin Warriors
- Part Two
- A Second Back Burn
- A Short Reprieve
- Rank Five
- The Fire Is Guided Past Us
- Evacuation Order Again
- Our Personal Fire
- We Begin to Explore the Fire
- Lockdown
- Living Within the Fire
- Big Stick Lake
- Transition to Area Command
- The Spruce Bog Fire
- Windstorm
- The Ground Battle Starts in Earnest
- Calm
- The Three Sisters
- The Meeting
- Mischief with the Fire
- The Trip to Town
- We Venture Out into the World
- Visiting the Precipice
- Mopping Up
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Photos
"In the summer of 2017, wildfires dominated the headlines in British Columbia. As a low pressure weather system continued to cause lightning strikes, starting new fires, strong winds fanned the existing ones. Over two hundred fires burned in the province and nearly ten thousand people in or around the towns of 100 Mile House, Ashcroft, Cache Creek, Princeton and Williams Lake received the instruction YOU MUST EVACUATE NOW. But not everyone left. Captured by Fire alternates between the dramatic first-person accounts of wilderness dweller Chris Czajkowski and homesteader Fred Reid, who both ignored the evacuation order and stayed to protect their properties, animals and livelihoods. Living in a remote area, they knew that their homes would be of low priority to officials when fire fighting resources were deployed. Over the course of the summer, as alerts fluctuated and even the firefighters pulled out, both had to decide: when is it time to go?"-- Provided by publisher.