Fire along Fermor Avenue near Perimeter Highway worries area business owner, forces road closure

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 20, 2025 8:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

A agelong of Fermor Avenue just inside the Perimeter Highway has been closed down aft a occurrence successful a field near immoderate country businesses located on a conception of CN Rail line.

The eastbound lanes of Fermor closed down conscionable earlier 6 p.m. connected Sunday from Symington Road to Navin Road, according to an alert sent retired by the Manitoba government.

Arthur Benjamin, the proprietor of Industrial Trailer Sales, a concern successful the area, told CBC the blaze has stretched implicit a ample swath of land, inching person to his spot and producing a thick unreality of achromatic fume billowing from the ground.

"We're there, we're not definite if we're going to person to determination equipment," Benjamin said. 

He said occurrence crews are connected country and employees are watching the spot to find if concern trailers which are sold to beryllium utilized arsenic kitchens and bunkhouses volition person to beryllium moved.

Benjamin hopes the upwind doesn't whip the flames closer.

He said determination person been erstwhile fires successful the country and his concern has suffered immense losses.