Ottawa fire crews battle 4 blazes in 13 hours, 1 person hospitalized in critical condition
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Ottawa firefighters attended three different fires overnight on Sunday, including one that displaced 15 people from a home in the Glebe, and battled another early morning blaze Monday in the ByWard Market.
The latest fire broke out in a two-storey home shortly after 9 a.m. on St. Patrick Street, Ottawa Fire Services said.
OFS said a passerby was walking by the building when they noticed smoke and alerted the four residents inside to the fire.
Fire crews arrived shortly after to get the fire under control with no injuries reported. Two people will be displaced by the fire, OFS said.
An OFS investigator has been dispatched to determine the cause.
Firefighters first responded to a call Sunday night at 8:40 p.m. reporting a fire at a three-storey home on Powell Avenue between Bank Street and Lyon Avenue, according to a release.
When crews arrived a few moments later, the majority of occupants had evacuated, OFS said.
But crews had to enter the building to help one occupant, a woman in her 60s, who was trapped on the top floor.
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The interior stairwell had caught fire, crews said, so firefighters entered through the rear window of the building and located the occupant, removing her from the building and providing care until paramedics arrived.
Ottawa Paramedic Services said the woman was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
A second alarm was declared at 8:45 p.m., with crews deeming the fire under control around 9:30 p.m.
The Canadian Red Cross and the Salvation Army will step in to help care and find shelter for the 15 residents displaced in the fire, OFS said.
The provincial fire marshal said it is assisting OFS investigators to determine the cause of the fire.
Later that same evening, just before 1:30 a.m., fire crews were called to an apartment fire at 182 Daly Ave.
Crews were able to snuff out the fire within an hour but two occupants will likely be displaced by the blaze, OFS said. No injuries were reported despite heavy smoke on scene.
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The Red Cross and Salvation Army will also be assisting the two occupants here, and a fire investigator has been dispatched.
A third fire then broke out on the top floor of an unoccupied building at 12 Arthur St. around 3:40 a.m., OFS said. Crews continued working on this fire into the early morning hours on Monday.
This was the second fire in a vacant building in Ottawa’s Chinatown neighbourhood in the past two weeks, with a blaze breaking out on Somerset Street West earlier this month.
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