St. James warehouse destroyed by fire
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This article was published 05/02/2018 (2913 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A two-alarm fire destroyed a warehouse in St. James on Monday.
Assistant fire chief Mark Reshaur said early Monday evening that firefighters were no longer trying to save the two-storey building and were in a defensive mode to prevent it from spreading. Firefighters were pouring water down into the building from a hose at the end of a ladder above the smoke billowing up.
“The building is a writeoff,” Reshaur said.
“The roof has collapsed. The walls are collapsing. We want to stay back.”
Reshaur said it is too early to know what sparked the fire. The building is a commercial warehouse with unknown contents inside, he said.
“As the contents burn there will continue to be flare ups,” he said.
The fire broke out at about 3 p.m. in the building on the west side of Roseberry Street between Ellice and Silver avenues west of the Polo Park area.
Kevin.rollason@freepress.mb.ca
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