Women’s centre staff pivot as fire damages entrance
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The North End Women’s Centre will move some programming outdoors after a fire damaged the building’s entrance.
Surveillance video appears to show the fire, set in a nearby garbage can, caused extensive damage to the foyer and overhanging roof to the drop-in centre’s entrance at 394 Selkirk Ave., executive director Kris Beaune said.
“It’s disheartening that it happened at all,” said Beaune on Monday.
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Damage from the fire at the North End Women’s Centre at 394 Selkirk Avenue.
The fire began at around 4:20 a.m. Sunday. It was extinguished shortly before 5 a.m. Beaune said staff made space in the back of the building Monday morning to continue offering food and harm reduction and hygiene products for the 80 to 120 people they serve daily.
Beaune expects it to take at least a month to return to normal. In the meantime, the centre is asking for bottled water donations as temperatures continue to soar.
“We kind of have to roll with it. We don’t ever like to shut down. (People) rely on us for quite a bit. We don’t like to let them down,” Beaune said.
Winnipeg police spokesman Const. Claude Chancy said officers came across the fire and alerted the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service. He said officers used a fire extinguisher on the blaze before firefighters arrived.
Chancy was unaware if the fire department was still investigating the blaze.
In May 2020, the centre was about to reopen its thrift store when a fire damaged the building and all its merchandise.
— with files from Erik Pindera
jura.mcilraith@freepress.mb.ca
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