A man who lost his family home in Monte Lake, B.C., said his sister escaped while the tires on her vehicle were melting. Kevin Cooke said his sister Jackie Cooke left when told to by fire crews, but wasn’t able save her cats, birds or their mother’s ashes from the onrushing wildfire. She did manage to collect the dogs, he said. “When she was leaving, the tires on her van were melting,” he said in an interview from Sylvan Lake, Alta. “All she wanted to do was grab one box of my mom’s ashes, but she couldn’t even do that.” Jackie Cooke is one of many forced from their home Friday by the wind−fanned wildfire in B.C.’s central Interior. He said the family had hoped the property would be safe as fire crews were pumping water to fight the wildfire right next to the home. Kevin Cooke finally managed to …