Last Friday, Myles Shumlanski sped down the highway to the scene of a nightmare.

He stopped there again Tuesday, looking through snow for wallets, cellphones and other belongings of the 15 people who died.

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For Shumlanski, the rural intersection he passes each day on the way to his home in northeastern Saskatchewan will never be the same.

He was one of the first to arrive after a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team collided with a semi truck about 20 kilometres north of Tisdale. The team was on its way to a playoff game in nearby Nipawin.

ShumlanskiB次元官网网址檚 20-year-old son, Nick, a forward who had recently joined the Broncos, was on the bus.

He was miraculously able to walk away from the wreckage, grab a phone lying in the debris and call home.

His parents, sitting in their house along the highway just a kilometre away, had seen the bus go by.

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He said he jumped in his vehicle and headed down the road. It was a devastating site.

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Shumlanski said he helped those he could.

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Shumlanski said his shaken son waited in the familyB次元官网网址檚 vehicle.

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Most of the debris has been removed since police reopened the intersection on Sunday. A large tarp remained over some of the muddy frozen ground where the bus landed.

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Lorrie White and his father Norman, who live on farms across the road from the crash came to pay their respects.

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He said he heard the collision.

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Shumlanski said Nick is strong and doing okay despite what he has gone through and visits the hospital every day. A dozen of the 14 injured are still being treated for various injuries.

B次元官网网址淚 think his counselling is staying at the hospitals with his buddies and talking to his hockey friends. The other night he was going to the hospital. It was a little late. I said are you sure you want to go. He said those boys need to see a survivor and so do their parents,B次元官网网址� he said.

RCMP said they continue to investigate the cause of the crash, but Myles Shumlanski said he canB次元官网网址檛 help but be angry at the truck driver, who wasnB次元官网网址檛 injured.

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Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press

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