Calgary fire crews fight 3-alarm apartment fire in southwest
Posted Dec 20, 2019 4:49 pm.
Last Updated Dec 20, 2019 11:52 pm.
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CALGARY (660 NEWS) — The Calgary Fire Department says a large apartment fire in Bankview is now under control.
Crews will remain at the scene overnight putting out hotspots.
Calgary fire says they’re also in the process of searching for pets that may have been trapped in units.
The damage is extensive and engineers will likely be called in Saturday to see if the structure of the building has been compromised.
No injuries have been reported.
The Calgary Fire Department (CFD) confirm they began receiving calls around 4:30 p.m. Friday of the fire near the intersection of 14 Street and 23 Avenue S.W.
“I was just cleaning my house and I heard the alarm go off and I was like ‘What’s going on?’ Then a lady from the basement yelled ‘The place is on fire at the top above you’ so I grabbed my jacket and ran, all my stuff is in there, everything,” Keegan Tufford said.
Crews say the three-alarm fire began on the fifth level of the building.
The fire happening at a tough time of the year, with Christmas coming right after the weekend, those who live in building have been told they likely won’t be let back in soon.
Calgary Transit buses were brought in to keep those displaced by the fire, warm.
