Good evening people living in an apartment building south of White Avenue are looking for answers from police and their landlord tonight what started as a standoff with armed officers ended with a fire that sent seven people to hospital CDB’s nav s joins us now from the scene tonight so nav the fire
Started just after midnight but I understand fire Crews were still there well into the afternoon Matt CTV has had crews out here since 5:00 a.m. and when I arrived around noon there were still FL spreading on the roof the fire is finally out but the apartment is torched
And many who live here have many questions about what happened and the response and I still a good chance okay police say the fire started in this room on the main floor just before 1:00 a.m. it spread quickly fire Crews arrived within minutes waking up sleeping
Tenants we were not woken up by fire alarms we were woken up by banging from the firefighters so the blaze had already started there was already smoke coming under our door Daniel olds was awoken by his mother he only had seconds to grab what he needed his daughter and
Her medication I gave my kid to a paramedic and I went to open up that door to run back in but my mom was already outside I would have ran back in there to save my mother old says his 79-year-old mother is in critical condition I don’t have a home and I got
To worry about my mom if she’s going to die right now Edmonton fire says seven people were taken to hospital some people were rescued from their balconies others crawled out of the building themselves oh some people took shelter at a neighbor’s house and the people who
Lived in the house were giving us water and making sure that we were taken care of and um just unbelievably kind we’re happy with uh what we did and how we could help everybody Cole panan says at least 15 people and their cats ended up
In his home we we still have a couple cats wandering around uh from from uh the the fire I think it’s just basic human decency that’s what you do for your community right Edmonton Police at the apartment around 5:00 p.m. Thursday night helping another agency carry out a
Court order against a man police say the fire that torched this apartment started in his suite he was arrested shortly after the fire began they they waited too long is what they did yes they shouldn’t have an officer I spoke to at the scene believes an accelerant may have been
Used due to the color of the initial Flames we also attempted to contact the landlord about the fire alarms reportedly not working we have not heard back we asked Edmonton fire about those alarms too it told us it’s still investigating police also declined our request for an interview
Matt all right ctb’s nav sang Live For Us on 79th Avenue tonight thank you nav
Several people were taken to hospital after fire broke out at a Whyte Avenue area apartment on Friday.
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