Home to be demolished after third fire in 18 months
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A vacant Winnipeg Avenue house is scheduled to be demolished after it was damaged by fire for the third time in 18 months.
Firefighters were sent to the two-and-a-half storey house on the 800 block at 1:02 a.m. Friday. They used an aerial ladder, among other methods, to battle the blaze, and declared it under control four hours later.
A neighbouring home was temporarily evacuated as a precaution, the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said in a news release.
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A vacant house on Winnipeg Avenue is scheduled to be demolished after it was damaged by fire for the third time in 18 months.
The home was still inhabited when the previous fire there broke out early on Feb. 13. Crews used ladders to rescue a person who was trapped on an upper floor. The person was then taken to hospital.
The house sustained significant smoke, fire and water damage in the February fire.
A person was taken to hospital in critical condition after a fire there on the night of Jan. 11, 2024. The WFPS said at the time that the cause of that fire appeared to be accidental.
Police extinguished a fire at another vacant house, on the 400 block of Aberdeen Avenue, later Friday. Crews were sent to the two-and-a-half-storey building at 7:10 a.m. and declared the fire under control half an hour later. The house was inhabited when a fire broke out there early on Feb. 21. Preliminary observations suggested the fire was caused by an electrical malfunction, the WFPS said at the time.
Crews also extinguished a fire in a commercial building on the 1300 block of Erin Street early Friday. Crews were sent to the building at 5:01 a.m. and declared the fire under control 45 minutes later.
Later, at 5:39 a.m., firefighters were sent to a two-storey house on Inez Crossing. Everyone inside got out before crews arrived, and crews declared the fire under control at 6:08 a.m.
Smoking is the suspected cause of that fire, the WFPS said.
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