"Everyone had their close calls throughout the flood...mine was a little dramatic," remembers Kananaskis park ranger Gareth Short.

Already stretched to the limit, Calgary firefighters were dispatched south of the city to rescue a woman stranded by the flood waters.

It was one of the most significant phone calls Bruce Burrell has ever received, a call that signaled a wave of destruction was headed Calgary’s way.

Jamie Lea and Owen Tipton fled their High River home, not knowing if they and their two children would ever return.

A year ago, Calgarian Darcy Verhun could never have imagined the catastrophe that threw his and family’s lives into chaos.

A captain with the Calgary Fire Department's aquatic rescue team recalls what happened after a young boy lost his finger.