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Warning saves lives in house fire

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 09/12/2012 8:48 AM | Comments: 0

The rear deck where the fire on Furby Street is believed to have started. (KEN GIGLIOTTI / THE WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) Photo Store

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Brooke Gamey is grateful for having been alerted to the fire in her home.

THREE people escaped unharmed from a burning home Tuesday morning after someone ran over and knocked on their window to let them know their place was in flames.

Brooke Gamey, who lived in a suite in the house in the 200 block of Furby Street, was alerted by a passerby who knocked on her back window about 4 a.m.

"I saw the window all lit up with orange," she said.

She then knocked on the door of a neighbouring suite, told the occupant to call 911, and they fled outside.

Gamey said she was grateful to the man who rapped on her window when he saw the fire.

"Thanks to him, I’m in good condition and not burned, so this is one of the happiest days of my life," she said. "Without that guy knocking on my window, the fire would have spread throughout the house."

A cigarette discarded in a planter filled with peat moss appears to be the cause of the fire that destroyed the 2½-storey house in West Broadway.

Damage at the rooming house is estimated at $150,000.

There were also two fires within nine hours of each other on Magnus Avenue Monday night and early Tuesday morning. There were no injuries in either.

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