1 person jumps from building, another left dangling from window after fire at Winnipeg apartment block

CBC News

· Posted: May 10, 2025 12:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Two radical were taken to hospital in captious information and different successful unchangeable information aft a Saturday greeting occurrence that forced 1 idiosyncratic to jump from a southbound Winnipeg building, while another was near dangling from a window.

Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service crews were called astir 1:30 a.m. astir a fire that trapped residents wrong a three-storey flat gathering connected Gaylene Place, southbound of Abinojii Mikanah and westbound of Pembina Highway.

By the clip firefighters arrived, 1 nonmigratory had already jumped from a model of the suite wherever the occurrence had started, the metropolis said successful a quality release.

Using a ladder, crews rescued different idiosyncratic who was dangling from a window. People successful different suites were capable to get retired safely, and a Winnipeg Transit autobus was connected country to springiness them shelter, the metropolis said.

Firefighters tackled the occurrence from wrong the gathering and had it under power conscionable aft 2:10 a.m. 

In summation to the 3 radical taken to hospital, different idiosyncratic was assessed astatine the country but didn't necessitate further aesculapian attention.

The metropolis said the occurrence is inactive nether investigation.