ICYMI: It wasn't the near-death of experience of Emil Wolfe and his wife's RV exploding into flames in the middle of the night that stands out to him when he thinks of his trip to N.L. 'What stood out for me is what the people did to get me home.'
Touching aftermath of an RV fire leaves an American tourist wondering 'what life can be like if everybody was like people in Newfoundland'
Naomi Saboura and Emil Wolfe are pictured in Newfoundland with the RV in the days before the fire. -Contributed There was the stranger at the Health Science Centre emergency room who overheard what happened to them, left the emergency room, and returned with a bag of dog food for Apollo.There was the Canadian Red Cross which put them up at the Holiday Inn for three nights and gave them $600 spending money.
“‘My name is Bruce Halleran, and everybody in Newfoundland knows me, so if you need anything, you just call me,’” Wolfe recalls him saying. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=7963189047085745&set=a.904369372967783&__cft__[0]=AZUTLbtE4ZMdyW-_wM8rLHqBbLD01GeHbxYb43_Sh0Di4IblUCQSgl91IxhZIuWpp5kDWvKcUM7YB9SdwMK-rgwUoh-Q-sSCF2b4euLZeZrh-dii5rDPY1L5ZepT6-Z0nDiBdfKjXVC1JlnfIsfGbQE9gQ-CWsNY4DaiO5pvW1_VUg&__tn__=%2CO*FHe said he was on the beach in Portugal Cove South that day watching the capelin roll in with his grandsons when he saw the California licence plate.
Tran’s husband, Thang Tran, literally gave Wolfe the shoes off his feet when he first saw him after the fire with no shoes on.
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