Dereck Boudreau was preparing to sleep in his car on Tuesday night.

The 71-year-old was evacuated after a fire broke out inside his apartment building in Middle Sackville, N.S., in the early hours of Monday morning — and was struggling to find a place for he and his wife to stay as most hotels in the area were at capacity.

“I lost everything. Everything is in there … it’s unbelievable what we lost,” Boudreau said outside a comfort centre located up the road from where he was living.

That was until Sue Hill, who was donating items to evacuated residents, overheard Boudreau’s challenges and offered him her family trailer at a nearby campground until he finds a new place to live.

“They told me there was one couple that needed housing, I asked if there was anything else they needed so, lik

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