House burned 'within minutes,' witness says, as fire tears through 3 Langside Street homes

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 03, 2025 5:21 PM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes ago

A occurrence that tore through 3 homes connected Langside Street, between Portage and Ellice avenues in cardinal Winnipeg, dispersed done 1 of the houses wrong a substance of minutes on Tuesday afternoon, according to a witness.

Fire crews called to the blaze successful the 400 artifact of Langside Street conscionable earlier 2 p.m. connected Tuesday recovered 3 houses with fume and occurrence coming from them, the metropolis said successful a quality release. 

The occurrence was ample and complex, prompting 911 dispatchers to nonstop further resources, the metropolis said.

Witness Joel Johnston said helium was playing astatine a adjacent parkland with his nephew erstwhile they noticed the fume from the fire.

He instantly called the occurrence department and started knocking connected doors on Langside to pass others, helium said.

"It was beauteous quick. It was wrong minutes. The fume was similar a fog, and past it turned into achromatic billowy fume wrong minutes," said Johnston.

"The flames went from the backmost to the beforehand of the location wrong minutes." 

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Johnston told CBC News connected Tuesday helium saw astatine slightest 2 radical wrong the building, and saw 1 climbing retired of a model covered successful soot. 

Residents of each 3 homes had evacuated earlier crews arrived, the metropolis said. No injuries were reported and exigency societal services unit provided enactment to radical displaced by the fire.

A feline was besides recovered astatine the country and metropolis carnal services officials responded, the metropolis said. 

No harm estimation is available, and the occurrence is inactive nether investigation, the metropolis said.

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