Moose Jaw's Sandi Gerbert was watching her son play baseball at Ross Wells park Thursday evening, when some of the people at the game pointed out smoke and flames billowing up from across town.
Immediately, Gerbert had one of the other player's moms drive her as close to the YWCA fire as possible. Gerbert went up to the security tape that blocked off the dangerous area to pedestrians, spoke with a member of the Moose Jaw Police Service and was let into the area under evacuation to help out with it.
"A lot of people were behind the police tape and I was going underneath it. A lot of those people looked like they were wondering what I was up to."
Gerbert is not a professional emergency services worker. She's a volunteer with the Moose Jaw branch of the Canadian Red Cross.
For more on this story, read Tuesday's Times-Herald.
