Rav Sangha woke up in her fiancée's mother's apartment this past Sunday and groggily spotted embers floating by on the balcony. 

She thought she was dreaming at first, but it turned out to be a fire in the Southdale area complex, which has left 24 families without a home.

Sangha, a paramedic in Dauphin, says she woke up others in the apartment, pulled the fire alarm and then started knocking on doors. 

"I knew there were propane tanks and barbecues on these balconies," Sangha said. "My first thought was 'let's get people out of here, have them woken up so they know it's not a false alarm.' (I) just started banging on those doors so people didn't just go back to sleep or slowly make their way out." 

She then went to an adjacent building and pulled the fire alarm there as well.

Sangha says her training as a paramedic may have helped her stay calm when going door-to-door, but says she was on auto-pilot almost.
She says she's just glad everyone got out okay. 

"Once I got everyone out of the apartment we were in I was at the front door and was telling people to hurry up when the family of eight came out," she said. "I said 'You guys need to hurry up' because the roof was on fire and it was getting very hot so we knew we should get out of the area." 

Leanne Nacionalies' family of eight did not have tenant's insurance and lost everything in the fire, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up by Leanne's sister, Melissa. The page has already raised more than its $5,000 goal.