Northern Sask. wildfire evacuees save couple from house fire in North Battleford

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