Twenty-eight residences and one business were destroyed when a forest fire swept through Monte Lake, B.C., but Dr. Charles Hoffe’s was not one of them..On August 16, Western Standard reported a Go Fund Me campaign aimed to raise $5,000 for the doctor. Late in June, a fire started in Lytton Creek area, eventually destroying 90% of the town where Hoffe had practiced family medicine for 28 years..Hoffe relocated to the Monte Lake area, but fire swept through there in August, destroying 28 homes and one business..Contrary to the understanding of the fundraisers, Hoffe’s home remains undamaged, he told the Western Standard in an email..The Go Fund Me page from which our initial report was based, originally at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-dr-hoffe-after-being-displaced-by-fire, has been taken down. .Hoffe voiced concerns about COVID-19 vaccinations after some of his patients received serious side effects. A warning letter by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons did not silence him, and he even wrote a public letter to B.C.’s chief public health officer, Bonnie Henry..Subsequently, he was barred from the local emergency ward. Later, he used D-dimer tests to find blood clots in 62% of those vaccinated for COVID-19..Meanwhile, Karen, whom the Western Standardreported on August 8, was not as fortunate. Her farmhouse northwest of Vernon, B.C. was consumed by flames on August 14..“I’ve been pondering on Ecclesiastes 3, there is a time and a place for all things under the sun. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. We did everything physically possible to protect our pace from this fire, and we did everything spiritually possible. We fasted and prayed,” Karen said in a Tiktok video..“God answered your prayers, but not in the way we thought. Twenty years ago, my husband and I took a raw piece of land and built a childhood dream. We both had a lot of home in the middle of the mountains, a safe place to raise our children, a training center for abused horses and a place for youth to come and learn about Jesus…The fire took our farm, the hay shed with all the equipment in it: tractors, balers, our storage containers, fences, irrigation pipe; our barn; and our log home that was built by my nephew, my family, and a few dear friends.”.The fire “blew hot and fast,” Karen said. But, like the biblical Job who lost everything, her faith has withstood the flames..“We are bewildered at the loss of everything and saddened to see years of love and hard work gone. But I truly believe in my heart and know without a doubt, the Lord is good. He is faithful and he always provides,” Karen said..Lee Harding is a Western Standard correspondent and former B.C. resident.
