Northern Alberta man gets 2nd-degree burns trying to rescue dogs from trailer fire
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A northern Alberta family is sharing their harrowing story after having to escape a trailer fire in which they weren't able to save their family pets.
A northern Alberta family is sharing their harrowing story after having to escape a trailer fire. While the parents and kids were able to get out, not everyone did.
It was a night Apryl and Steven McDonald will never forget.
“I looked through the (window), I see my baby sleeping in the bassinet with the flames through the window behind him, the thick smoke,” Apryl McDonald, the mother of two, said.
This was supposed to be a summer filled with family fun by the lake.
In May, the McDonald’s and their two young children moved with everything they had to a lakeside community at Lesser Slave Lake — three hours north of Edmonton. Then early Thursday morning just a month after moving in, devastation struck.
“I woke up in a daze,” Steven McDonald said. “I went and opened my camper door and the whole side of the trailer was on fire already.”
In a panic, the McDonald’s grabbed their kids and escaped.
“If I would have slept five minutes longer, I don’t know if we would have made it out,” Apryl recounted.