Volunteers help some White Rock Lake fire victims rebuild

For Monte Lake resident, Dustan Eager it's a bit surreal to see a new home for his family under construction.

Since the spring, volunteers from across Canada have been traveling to Monte Lake, B.C. to help some of the families who lost their homes in last year’s massive White Rock Lake wildfire.

The effort is being coordinated by Mennonite Disaster Service.

The charity is building four homes for North Okanagan fire victims, three in Monte Lake and one near Vernon, in less than six months.

The volunteer construction workers are making new houses possible for people who thought they wouldn’t be able to rebuild.

For Monte Lake resident, Dustan Eager it’s a bit surreal to see a new home for his family under construction.

After they lost their house last summer, with only partial insurance coverage, it didn’t look like they would be able to rebuild.

Eager said without the Mennonite Disaster Service the family of five likely couldn’t have stayed in Monte Lake.

“We probably would have ended up selling and having to move to somewhere that we could afford, because, right now, with the cost of everything we couldn’t have done it any other way,” Eager said.