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A home in the 700 block of Beverley Street was significantly damaged by fire Tuesday evening.
Winnipeg fire crews arrived on scene just before 7:30 p.m. and began an interior offensive attack. The fire was quickly knocked down, but the structure also suffered extensive smoke and water damage.
Firefighters attempted to save a dog found inside a burning home in the 200 block of Hartford Avenue Saturday evening, but the animal succumbed to smoke inhalation.
Crews arrived at the bungalow just after 6 p.m. to find heavy smoke. Firefighters quickly knocked down the fire inside the home, but the structure suffered significant smoke and water damage.
WINNIPEG — Fire investigators say a malfunctioning clothes dryer is to blame for a blaze in the 600 block of Nassau Street South on Tuesday.
Crews were called to the home at around 2:30 p.m. and began an offensive attack to quickly extinguish the flames.
The unsafe use of a portable space heater is being blamed for a fire in a two-storey house in the 700 block of McPhillips Street Tuesday morning.
Emergency crews were called to the scene just before 3 a.m. and found all occupants had safely evacuated.
WINNIPEG — One person was able to escape uninjured after a fire broke out in a Wildwood Park home Sunday afternoon.
Emergency crews arrived on scene shortly after 12 p.m. to the single-family home, where they found a fire in the attic.
By Brett Bundale, The Canadian Press
HALIFAX — Experts say the deaths of the seven Barho children in a ferocious Halifax house fire last week could lead to new fire safety measures and changes to the country’s building code.
“I think we’re going to learn from this tragedy and you may actually end up seeing some changes coming in the codes as a result of this,” Phil Rizcallah, director for construction research and development with the National Research Council of Canada, said in an interview Monday.
By Brett Bundale, The Canadian Press
HALIFAX — One by one, seven small white caskets were carried inside a cavernous waterfront hall on Saturday, where thousands of mourners gathered for an emotional embrace of grieving parents who lost their children in a devastating house fire.
Seven black hearses lined up under the cold winter sun, the caskets brought inside the Cunard Centre by an honour guard.
By Aly Thomson, The Canadian Press
HALIFAX — The funeral for seven Syrian children who died in a fast-moving Halifax house fire will be held on Saturday, with an open invitation to the community that has rallied around the family.
A Facebook post from the Ummah Mosque in Halifax said services for the Barho children will begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Cunard Centre on Halifax’s waterfront, and will run until 3:15 p.m.
