Ashleigh Stewart

The Independent was the first international news outlet to be allowed into the destroyed town of Lytton, British Columbia. Ashleigh Stewart joined residents seeing the extent of the destruction for…

‘I stayed up all night watching the town burn down. It was so scary,’ says one Lytton resident. Nine foot high flames were lapping at Pierre Quevillon’s Lytton home when he bundled his two dogs into…