Almost a year ago, firefighters pulled Tori McCarty’s lifeless body from the smouldering rubble of a house fire in Fredericton.

Now, the teen is holding court on the same basketball court where she became a high school standout as she attends a week-long basketball camp.

The camp marks McCarty’s return to the gym after spending a year in recovery.

“I don’t remember that day at all, waking up, I don’t remember the day before,” says McCarty. “I don’t remember anything from that day.”

McCarty nearly lost her life in the fire on Aug. 25, 2013. She suffered severe burns over almost a quarter of her body, as well as devastating smoke inhalation.

The 19-year-old spent more than two months in a Halifax hospital and has spent much of the last year recovering from her injuries.

Her voice is still scarred from smoke damage and skin grafts cover her burns. Her recovery has been trying and painful, especially the many hours spent with physiotherapists to help regain the use of her arms.

“They literally just would slowly stretch and once it wasn’t painful, to hold it there,” explains McCarty. “They would stretch some more and that happened every day until, well, until I was able to do it on my own.”

As she fought through her recovery, her friends, former high school basketball teammates, and even complete strangers rallied around her and her family in the weeks following the devastating fire.

“There was so many people around Fredericton praying and hoping and all those kinds of things, whatever you believe in, and I’m so thankful,” she says. “I can’t say that enough, how thankful I am.”

Friend and high school teammate Morgan MacGregor says McCarty’s determination never faltered, despite the trials of her recovery.

“I actually don’t think I’ve ever heard Tori whine or complain once,” says MacGregor. “She just is like, well, this is what I’ve got to do, I’m going to do it. She’s just, she’s literally a fighter.”

Next month, after a year away from school, McCarty will return to St. Thomas University. She says she wants to focus on her studies and getting back in shape.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Andy Campbell