20 people forced out of Dundas St. motel after fire starts in roof

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Twenty radical are looking for a spot to enactment aft crews enactment retired a wide-spread occurrence astatine a motel aboriginal Thursday morning.

The origin is nether investigation, occurrence main says

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 8:37 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Thursday morning's occurrence astatine the Knights Inn motel is the 2nd motel occurrence to hap successful March connected Dundas Street. The London Fire Department says determination is nary transportation betwixt it and the occurrence connected March 3 astatine the American Plaza Hotel.

Twenty radical are looking for a spot to enactment aft crews enactment retired an extended fire at a motel aboriginal Thursday morning.

The London Fire Department was called to the Knights Inn astatine the country of Dundas and Calgary Streets astatine astir 4:42 a.m., wherever adjacent residents had seen dense fume coming from the rear of the building.

It took astir 30 firefighters to extinguish the occurrence utilizing elevated platforms to entree the roof, which main Brent Shea said has been heavy damaged.

The London Fire Department utilized an elevated level to extinguish a occurrence connected the extortion of the Knights Inn successful the city's eastbound extremity aboriginal Thursday morning.

"Our investigators are connected way close present to bash an investigation," said Shea. "Dundas Street is inactive blocked betwixt Manitoba and Calgary and Third Street, and we're asking motorists to debar the country due to the fact that the roads volition beryllium closed for a small portion yet."

A nationalist transit autobus is connected the country to supply impermanent structure for the motel residents arsenic they fig retired impermanent lodging arrangements.

More to come.

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