My co-worker's sister and family were at home in the Timberlea area early this afternoon. The sister had gone home early after seeing the blaze out her office window, and just had a feeling she had to convince her family to pack up and leave.
They did so about an hour before the first evacuation orders came down, and they made it out of the area just about 40 minutes before they closed the 63 southbound (on their way to family in Edmonton).
It's unfortunate that not more people had that intuition.
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