Corrosive liquid leak leads to evacuation
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A strip mall was evacuated as a hazardous materials team spent hours dealing with leaking barrels of corrosive liquid Wednesday.
Crews were sent to a commercial building on the first 100 block of Bentall Street in the Inkster Industrial Park at 5:10 p.m. and extinguished a fire. Firefighters found the two leaking barrels, left the building and called for the hazmat team.
A nearby building and the strip mall were evacuated as a precaution. The hazmat team used an absorbent mixture to contain the spill, then put it in barrels.
All the buildings were safe to reenter by 10 p.m., the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said in a news release.
On Thursday, one person was taken to hospital in stable condition after a house fire in St. James. Crews were sent to a bungalow on the 200 block of Roseberry Street at 1:45 p.m. and declared the fire under control at 2:49 p.m. Paramedics assessed a total of four people.
Earlier, at 12:21 p.m., crews were sent to a vacant house on the 700 block of Pritchard Avenue and declared the fire under control at 12:48 p.m. That morning, at 6:44 a.m., crews were sent to a house on the 600 block of Toronto Street and fought the blaze for hours, declaring the fire under control at 10:04 a.m.
On Wednesday, one person was taken to hospital in unstable condition after a fire on Chudley Street. Crews were sent to the two-storey townhouse on the first 100 block at 10:44 a.m. and declared the fire under control at 11:27 a.m. Everyone got out of the house before firefighters arrived.
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