When Dwayne Bourassa and Roger McCallum evacuated from English River Dene Nation to North Battleford due to encroaching wildfires last month, they didn’t expect to find flames in the city — let alone save lives. But they did.
Around 4 a.m. CST last Tuesday, while the pair — alongside their fellow security guards, Ethan Maurice and Edwin Gunn — was doing their overnight hotel rounds overseeing the safety of wildfire evacuees, they noticed smoke about a kilometre away.
“I just said, ‘Let’s go,’ and it’s a good thing we did,” Bourassa told CBC News.
When they arrived at the scene on 99th Street, he said they
