'Everyone thought they were going to die and felt like they were stuck'

'Everyone thought they were going to die and felt like they were stuck'

Diego Machado shares his story of the 2021 Juniper Ridge wildfire with Jenna Spencer. Photo by Jess Beaudin Diego is a fourth-year journalism student who has lived in Kamloops for just short of twenty years. Inspired by the late chef Anthony Bourdain, who travelled the world documenting other cultures through food, Diego wants to spend the rest of his life travelling the world, hearing other people’s stories and writing about them. Diego also us…