Out from the ash and flames of the wildfires that scorched Canada’s Jasper National Park comes the story of a #heroic 18-year-old who #saved over a #dozen #people.
Working as a volunteer firefighter and kitchen aide at a lodge, #Colleen #Knull received an evacuation order on a Monday in late July.
Stepping outside she saw smoke rising up the mountainsides, and knew that there were people still camping in the area.
Alerting everyone at the lodge, she went out to gather the campers until 16 people were ready to evacuate.
Darkness was falling, and getting out of the area meant a 4-hour hike across treacherous terrain.
Knull used her knowledge of the area and tracking skills to help navigate the 16 people down the trail. The group used head torches and phone flashlights to see in the darkness.
“I had previously rode up a horse up to that lodge on that same trail and throughout the way me and my employer, we had cut logs on the way up,” Knull told CTV News.
“There were 67 logs, so there would be be 67 cut logs on the way down … So I used my tracking skills – following horse tracks, horse manure.”
“There was more intense smoke, my eyes were burning, there was ash falling constantly,” said Rebecca Tocher, a hiker who was in Knull’s group
“She was an amazing leader and was just making sure that everyone was working together.”
Incredibly, all 16 hikers made it out ahead of the fires and successfully evacuated in the back of Knull’s pickup truck.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/18-year-old-uses-her-tracking-skills-to-guide-hikers-on-wildfire-evacuation-route/

How Islam #Saved Western Civilization https://youtu.be/C8M4i9fvq1M?si=9_zNfd6WoN5eduEV

Samuel Ringgold Ward escaped slavery and became a Congregationalist minister. He talks of the different levels of esteem that Canada has, between slaveholders and enslaved people. Freedom and dignity affected a country’s reputation.

Today, I meet people who seem to relish at the idea of a country having a reputation for cruelty. Is this biblical (1 Peter 2:12)?

How can you consider the reputation you’ve earned?

https://archive.org/details/oban-star-racers-the-complete-collection-2006 #saved

https://undelete.pullpush.io/ a new tool for viewing deleted reddit comments. (I thought all such tools had disappeared) #reddit, #saved

@blog
#saved #TheWaybackMachine

https://web.archive.org/web/20240423214049/https://kaffeeringe.de/2024/04/23/aber-muenchen/

Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon | Eukaryote Writes Blog

https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2024/04/12/nuking-the-moon/ #saved, #readlater, #nukethemoon

About Ideas Now | Search 1000s of personal sites

https://aboutideasnow.com/ #wildweb, #randomweb, #saved

Obituary for a Quiet Life — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/obituary-for-a-quiet-life #saved, #readlater, #quietlife

Sentry noticed an issue with my app that Apple's crash reporting did not. The app used way too much memory in one view and got killed by iOS. Sentry gave me all the info I needed to find out what had happened and fix it. I had some real dumb stuff in a view containing a list where each item was pretty heavy. No issues as long as the number of items was low, but quickly got into huge numbers with more items. So, very happy with what Sentry can do.

Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun - Typebar Magazine

https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/03/24/science-fiction-and-the-death-of-the-sun/ #saved, #readlater, #sciencefiction

Radios, how do they work? - lcamtuf’s thing

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/radios-how-do-they-work

#saved, #readlater

Excited that #StarTrekProdigy got #saved, but I can't help but feel the future of #StarTrek in general isn't as bright as it was a few years ago...

Then again, I personally think #Trek peaked with #DS9, and that the recent stuff hasn't reached the same highs.

With that and the #RTD2 era about to take off in earnest in #DoctorWho, I'm wondering if I'm about to go through another major phase