Colleen Knull, 18, sprung into action as a wildfire approached the Jasper Lodge in Jasper National Park
An 18-year-old Enderby firefighter put on a display of heroics Monday night when she swiftly rounded up people in Jasper National Park, getting them safely away from an encroaching wildfire.
"My first indication that there was a fire was we had noticed smoke coming up from the mountainside, and during my previous training in wildfire, I used some of the knowledge that I obtained from that and applied it to read the smoke, wind directions and how close it was," she said. "Then I was notified that there was a hiker campground just above us and they had no way of knowing that we needed to evacuate," she said. "So I walked five minutes up the trail and then proceeded to evacuate everybody out of that area and bring them down into the rest of the group."
"I had taken that trail previously, like a week before on horseback up to the lodge, and made note that there were 67 logs we had to cut to clear the trail on the way up. So on the way down, I knew there would be 67 logs we had to go past," she explained.
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