'I will never forget them': American tourists who escaped death in an explosive RV fire give praise to a legion of helpful Newfoundlanders | SaltWire

'I will never forget them': American tourists who escaped death in an explosive RV fire give praise to a legion of helpful Newfoundlanders

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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