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It was about 5 p.m. Friday when Myles Shumlanski got a “hysterical” call from his son.

“The bus was in an accident,” his son, Humboldt Broncos player Nick Shumlanski, screamed into the phone.

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Myles jumped into his vehicle and rushed to the crash site, about a quarter mile from his home on a Tisdale-area acreage. He and his wife Vivian were the first, and to his knowledge only, family members on the scene of the tragedy that struck his son’s hockey team that day.

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“As soon as I came,” he said, “I knew that it was a disaster.

“It was a pretty devastating sight.”

Nick came running over to him. He was one of only two kids who seemed able to walk. Some were stuck under debris, Myles said. Most couldn’t move. Everyone was in a state of shock.

Myles put Nick in the car and immediately went to work, along with passing motorists who’d stopped to help. “It was chaos,” he said. They held the kids steady and did what they could while they waited for emergency workers to arrive.