Halifax building demolished after overnight fire

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No 1 was injured erstwhile a occurrence aboriginal Friday greeting ripped done a Halifax gathering that contained astatine slightest 2 apartments and respective businesses.

At slightest 2 apartments and respective businesses were successful the Quinpool Road building

Linus Mulherin · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 11, 2025 5:27 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A firefighter stands crossed the thoroughfare from a gathering destroyed by occurrence arsenic different firefighter sprays h2o connected the rubble.

No 1 was injured erstwhile a occurrence aboriginal Friday greeting ripped done a Halifax gathering that contained astatine slightest 2 apartments and respective businesses.

Crews were engaged Friday demolishing the two-storey gathering on Quinpool Road, which sustained extended harm successful the blaze. Demolition began Friday day and closed postulation on portion of the street.

Firefighters were inactive hosing down blistery spots arsenic an excavator dug done the rubble adjacent the intersection of Quinpool Road and Oxford Street.

"We're going to beryllium successful the process of picking worldly from the pile, making definite it's afloat extinguished, loading it onto dump trucks and those benignant of instrumentality [the debris] away," Brad Connors, territory main with Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency, said aboriginal Friday afternoon.

Four firefighters enactment connected the extortion of a building.

Firefighters responded conscionable aft midnight to the mixed residential and commercialized building. Naan n Curry, Quinpool Billiards, Define Hair Studio and Barbershop, and Misty Vapes were each located connected the archetypal floor.

Everyone successful the gathering was safely evacuated.

The origin of the occurrence remains unknown.