Rylan Wheeler tried to get back in home, but couldn't because of overwhelming smoke

Rylan Wheeler was wearing headphones, absorbed in a game on his computer, when he heard the fire alarm blare across the house.

Thinking his brother, Aidan, triggered the alarm by cooking downstairs, Wheeler got out of his room and ventured downstairs to check on him. Soon, a cloud of smoke assailed his lungs.

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“I couldn’t breathe,” said Wheeler, who lived in the community of Seton until Saturday, when a blaze consumed the townnouse rented by him and his brother .

A neighbour was banging on his door, urging him to get out, but soon after escaping the fire, Wheeler realized he wasn’t wearing shoes, so he went back to collect some of his belongings.

When he saw his pickup truck partly

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