Name: Taylor Braat
Age: 22
Occupation: Radio host at 103.7 FM
“I was actually on air until we were told of the evacuation. All of our voices on air … you could tell they were all shaky. I was getting phone call after phone call of people asking me what is going on. And then I got a phone call that the Fort McMurray Golf Club was on fire.”
“In the morning, it was clear skies. Then, in the matter of 20 minutes, all of the smoke came downtown. We had the forestry manager come in for our segment Fort McMurray Matters. He was in our studio and you could just see it getting gradually worse. And then all of a sudden, it was dark in Fort McMurray and the sun was red.”
(quoted headline and interview from Edmonton Journal)