Sask. woman recalls escape from North Battleford apartment building fire
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Johanna Whitecalf thought she wouldn’t make it out alive after a fire at her apartment building in North Battleford, Sask.
Johanna Whitecalf didn’t think she would make it out of her apartment building alive.
“I knew I was going to die there,” she recalled in an interview with Global News.
Whitecalf was one of many of the residents forced to evacuate from their North Battleford, Sask., apartment building after a fire on Jan. 3.
She was woken by her two sons early that morning saying there was a fire in the building.
Whitecalf said the hallway was filling with smoke and her only thought was to get out of the building.
Although she wasn’t scared, Whitecalf thought she wouldn’t make it out alive.
“Because of my lungs. I couldn’t breathe and I was breathing smoke,” she said.
“I thought. ‘My lungs can’t take it. I’m not going to make it. I’m not going to make it out of this.’”
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