Around 10 people are out of their homes after a fire on Saturday afternoon at a four-unit apartment building in Windsor, N.S.
Windsor Fire Department Chief Jamie Harvey said the fire broke out around 2:30 p.m. AT at an apartment building on O’Brien Street. He said no one was injured.
Harvey said around 25 firefighters responded to the fire, including firefighters from nearby departments in Hantsport, Brooklyn and Summerville.
Harvey said the cause isn’t clear, but the fire isn’t believed to suspicious. He said the fire broke out near a heat pump located outside of the building.
“It could be the heat pump, it could be something in very close proximity,” said Harvey.
Tenisha Hazel lives in the unit closest to the heat pump where the fire started. She wasn’t home at the time of the fire, but her 15-year-old stepdaughter was.
Fire cause unclear
“I guess it blew up. They heard two big bangs,” said Hazel.
She said all of her family’s possessions — excluding her son’s untouched cowboy boots — were smoke damaged or charred.
Hazel said around 10 people live in the apartment building.
Harvey said the Red Cross and a local organization called the Posse Project provided assistance to displaced residents.
Hazel said she is staying at her parents’ place for now.
While the fire was initially put out around 4 p.m., it reignited around 6 p.m., but was quickly put out for good, said Harvey.
The damaged building is now boarded up. Harvey said there were concerns about the fire spreading to a nearby building, but it didn’t.
