Winnipeg Firefighters Respond To Fatal Nassau Street House Fire

A man successful his 40s is dormant aft a house fire ripped done a Lord Roberts area location Tuesday afternoon.

Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service responded to calls of a location occurrence conscionable aft 1 p.m. successful nan 700 artifact of Nassau Street. Three group who managed to evacuate were assessed: a man and woman, some successful their 60s, and a female successful her 30s.

A man successful his 40s was declared deceased successful nan home.

Neighbour Nancy Maskus called 9-1-1 erstwhile she noticed fume coming from nan house.

“Just perfectly devastating, reasoning astir that family losing everything successful 15 minutes,” she said.

“I deliberation nan full location was smoking successful astir 15 minutes.”

Maskus said she saw 1 of nan residents flight nan blaze done a second-storey window.

“She was saying that there’s… still personification that was successful nan house, aliases we didn’t cognize what had happened to them,” she said.

“I’ve conscionable ne'er seen truthful overmuch h2o spell onto a house… that it was still connected occurrence for illustration hours and hours later,” she said.

Neighbour Jenai Webber said she rushed location from activity erstwhile different area resident called her to show her nan location adjacent doorway to hers was connected fire. She said nan home’s residents had lived location since astatine slightest 2017, erstwhile she moved adjacent door.

“I’d conscionable spot them successful passing, and opportunity hullo to each different present and there,” she said.

When Global News visited nan segment Wednesday, nan home’s tile was caved in, and nan location was severely burnt wrong and out. A charred metallic pet cage was seen successful nan beforehand yard.

Firefighters declared nan occurrence nether power astatine 4:14 p.m. Tuesday. The Winnipeg Police Service says nan origin of nan occurrence is nether investigation.