A controlled burn near 70 Mile House on Wednesday caused panic among some Cariboo residents who lived through B.C.’s world wildfire season in history last summer.

Sharon Meyer and Vern Johnson of 100 Mile House were driving on Highway 97 when they noticed large flames on the side of the road and entered a wall of smoke.

“I don’t think you could see 50 feet because of the smoke,” Johnson told CBC Radio West‘s Sarah Penton. “That was the dangerous part of