It’s only been four days since a fire in the Seton community of Calgary took everything from Rylan Wheeler, but he says it feels much longer than that.

“There wasn’t a lot I could do… it all happened in five minutes,” Wheeler recalled.

Global News spoke to Wheeler outside his father’s place in nearby Okotoks, Alta., on Wednesday.

On that driveway stood all of his remaining possessions — the clothes on his back, and his damaged truck.

“It was just sort of, sadly, a long burn as I watched everything except for this thing burn in that fire,” he said, pointing to his vehicle.

Williams and his brother were one of five families displaced when a townhome on Union Avenue went up in flames Saturday night.

No injuries were reported, but one pet sadly died.

The brothers are trying to get bac

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