Burrows Avenue apartment fire displaces residents, crews save cat from Salter Street blaze

Residents of a Burrows Avenue apartment block were temporarily displaced by a fire early Tuesday morning.

Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service crews were called to the three-storey building on the 400 block of Burrows Avenue just after 4:30 a.m.

Firefighters found heavy smoke in the building when they arrived, but soon found the suite where the fire began and got the flames under control just before 5:30 a.m.

The fire department said residents evacuated on their own and none were hurt. The city’s emergency social services team was called in to help out the displaced residents temporarily.

On Monday, fire crews were called to a fire in a two-and-half-storey duplex on the 400 block of Salter Street at about 4:15 p.m. They managed to get the flames under control by just before 6 p.m.

The building’s residents evacuated on their own before crews arrived, but firefighters went in to rescue a cat that was trapped in the duplex.