[Dion]

This is so sad. I can't imagine the helpless feeling as you watch your parents get killed

Chapman says he and his parents, who were in their 60s, were preparing for a late afternoon barbecue when they noticed smoke and flames in the distance.

"Ten minutes later, our house is fully engulfed. There was nothing we could do. It came in so fast, we had nowhere to go," he said.

As the blaze engulfed the house as well as sheds and trees on the property, Chapman says he helped his parents take shelter in a trench that had been dug to repair a septic system.

As high winds whipped flames and smoke all around him, Chapman said he ran to some nearby railroad tracks, hoping the fire would pass.

That's when he said the power line crashed down across the trench where his parents were sheltering.

"I knew my parents were in that hole and I'm watching the house burn and I'm thinking, 'Oh my God.'

"The power line pulled right out of the house, and it came right down on my parents."

Chapman said he was certain the blaze would take him next as he lay exhausted, barely able to breathe. But the fire moved through the area as quickly as it arrived and he said he was eventually able to head back to the property.

"I wish I didn't. I seen my mom and dad's remains, burned," he said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...fire-1.6088297