OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Two Omaha brothers on a fishing trip in a remote Canadian wilderness park narrowly escaped a wildfire that destroyed their campsite minutes after they fled.
Tom and John Connelly were four days into a planned 10-day trip inside Quetico Provincial Park in Canada, just across the border from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, when flames began closing in on their island campsite from three directions.
Tom Connelly was cleaning fish when he spotted the flames.
“I looked up and I said, oh my God, look John — there was a huge flame right over there. Let’s start getting ready to go. We got to pack everything up. This thing could come towards us in a matter of minutes,” Tom said…