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By The Canadian Press
IQALUIT, Nunavut – Two Iqaluit youths are in custody after a series of fires earlier this week in the Nunavut capital, including one that damaged the city’s largest store and grocer.
RCMP said Friday charges of arson and disregard for human life are pending against the pair, who are not identified.
WINNIPEG — A fire at an industrial building in St. Boniface sent thick black smoke into the air on Monday.
Emergency crews responded to Friendly Family Farms, an oilseed processing plant, on Dawson Road just after 1 p.m.
No injuries were reported in a two-storey fire in the 100 block of Nichol Avenue on Saturday evening.
Emergency crews responded at around 8:20 p.m. and began an offensive attack to extinguish the blaze.
WINNIPEG — Several cats were rescued from a burning three-storey building in the 100 block of Maryland Street on Thursday evening.
Emergency crews responded at around 6:47 p.m. and found a fire in the attic of the building.
Winnipeg firefighters put out a blaze to two delivery trucks early Tuesday morning in the 2400 block of McGillivray Boulevard.
Crews arrived on scene at around 12:25 a.m. and found the two trucks fully engulfed in flames.
Winnipeg police have arrested a 16-year-old boy after he allegedly started four fires early Friday morning in the Point Douglas area.
Between 4:10 a.m. and 4:18 a.m., emergency crews responded to the following:
WINNIPEG — Two people are deceased after a fire in a two-storey home on Prince Edward Street overnight.
Crews arrived just before 2:30 p.m. to the Point Douglas neighbourhood to find the building fully engulfed with significant flames and smoke on all levels.
WINNIPEG — Dark plumes of smoke blew across east Winnipeg Monday when a fire ignited at a Transcona asphalt plant.
The fire at Pounder Emulsions in the RM of Springfield began at around 10 a.m. Fire crews from the rural municipality and City of Winnipeg responded to the industrial area on Gunn Road near Saunders Street and began tackling the blaze.
