The Ottawa hearth service says one individual is lifeless and 19 folks have been displaced after a hearth at an residence constructing within the metropolis’s west finish Sunday.
Firefighters say they had been referred to as to the scene on Armstrong Road at round 6 p.m. after a number of 911 calls reporting a hearth in a three-storey, multi-unit constructing.
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They are saying emergency crews discovered the fireplace inside a bed room in a primary ground unit and it was extinguished simply earlier than 6:30 p.m. earlier than it may unfold.
They are saying firefighters discovered one individual unconscious inside the lavatory, and regardless of life-saving measures, they had been pronounced lifeless in hospital.
The hearth service says crews searched the remainder of the constructing and located nobody else inside, and a complete of 19 residents had been displaced.
It says firefighters and the provincial hearth marshal will examine the reason for the blaze.
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