A B.C. father and his 12-year-old daughter have been plagued by forest fires two summers in a row and fear losing their home this time around.

On Wednesday, B.C. declared a state of emergency.

Jason Wettstein and daughter Ava live in the North Bonaparte plateau area north of Kamloops and can see the flames from the house they are building.

“I’ve made arrangements to get Ava out of here,” Wettstein said, who evacuated his home during the fires last year and spent a month living in a hotel.

“I would like to stay a little longer — even if evacuated, I would probably stay here