‘I just knew I had to do something’: Nova Scotia honours four for bravery
HALIFAX — Travis Wolfe was helping plow his grandfather’s yard following back-to-back snowstorms in Port Joli, N.S., last February, when the older man alerted him to an ominous sound in the distance.
“My grandfather came out of the door and hollered, ‘There’s an explosion down over the hill,’ so we jumped in the truck,” said Wolfe, shortly after being awarded Nova Scotia’s Medal of Bravery with three other recipients in a ceremony Wednesday at the provincial legislature.
The truck became stuck on the unplowed road, Wolfe said, and he was forced to run down over the hill toward the neighbour’s house in waist deep snow.
“One end of the house was in flames and I knew I couldn’t do nothing there,” the 26-year-old father of two said.