

The fire was officially declared out at 10:53 a.m. Traffic on 82 Street was closed between 115 and 117 Avenues, and ATCO Gas was on scene to shut off supply to the homes. He added the Emergency Support Response Team was looking after them. In a written statement to CTV News Edmonton, Kyle Owcharuk, public information officer with Edmonton Fire Rescue Services, said two people and their pet were evacuated from one of the neighbouring homes. They suffered some smoke inhalation and were taken to hospital for precautionary reasons, he said. Two people had been living on the top floor, and one each in the main floor and basement suites. The landlord of one of those buildings told CTV News Edmonton it was commercially zoned for three units, one on each storey. The blaze at the two-storey home – which had been framed with walls but didn't have any siding yet – spread to two neighbouring houses. "I was rattling that door like it was going to come off the hinges." The house site on a 3000sqm of streamside land.

The house pictured before the earthquakes in 2011. She was going up and I was running across the street to wake up the neighbours," Floyd Alderoute said. Built in the 1920s, it was badly damaged in the earthquakes and is for sale in as-is condition.

"There was an orange glow in the back over there and then it just progressively got brighter and brighter. around 2 a.m.Ī man who lives across the street told CTV News Edmonton he knocked on doors to wake his neighbours up. A home under construction in north Edmonton went up in flames early Friday morning.įirefighters were called to 11512 82 St.
