Smoke, water damage on several floors after apartment roof fire in River-Osborne area | CBC News
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More than 20 units from the service responded to the blaze just after 7 p.m. at 221 Stradbrook Ave., a residential building near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
Person transported to hospital in unstable condition due to smoke inhalation
A fire on the roof of an apartment tower sent a plume of black smoke over an area just south of downtown Winnipeg Thursday night.
More than 20 units from the service responded to the blaze just after 7 p.m. at 221 Stradbrook Ave., a residential building near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
Winnipeg police said the fire was under control at about 7:20 p.m. Residents and workers in the building’s pizza restaurant, Parcel Pizza, evacuated.
One person was sent to hospital in unstable condition for smoke inhalation, the deputy chief of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service said.
Deputy fire chief Scott Wilkinson said the fire damage was confined mostly to the apartment’s roof, but smoke and water also damaged several of the building’s 18 floors.
“It’s a phenomenal amount of work. I just came … down myself from 18 floors. I’m exhausted, and I wasn’t carrying equipment like our crews,” Wilkinson said.
The cause of the fire is being investigated. Wilkinson said the damage costs will be “significant.”
Residents will be allowed back into the building when it’s safe, Wilkinson added.
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