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Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
1 sent to hospital after vehicle fire burns about 2 hectares in Winnipeg
A person was rushed to hospital after a vehicle caught on fire and spread, burning about two hectares in Winnipeg on Friday. Winnipeg's Fire Paramedic Service were called to the fire at around 9:46 a.m. on the 2200 block of Main Street near Winnipeg's Water Pollution Control Centre in the city's north. First responders were told the fire was spreading quickly into the grass and a person might have been trapped inside the vehicle, the city said in a news release Friday. The city said two people got out of the vehicle, and one of them was assessed before being taken to hospital in unstable condition. Firefighters used handlines and wildland firefighting equipment to put out the blaze that spread through about two hectares. The fire remains under investigation.
CBC
3 days ago
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- CBC
1 sent to hospital after vehicle fire burns about 2 hectares in Winnipeg
Social Sharing A person was rushed to hospital after a vehicle caught on fire and spread, burning about two hectares in Winnipeg on Friday. Winnipeg's Fire Paramedic Service were called to the fire at around 9:46 a.m. on the 2200 block of Main Street near Winnipeg's Water Pollution Control Centre in the city's north. First responders were told the fire was spreading quickly into the grass and a person might have been trapped inside the vehicle, the city said in a news release Friday. The city said two people got out of the vehicle, and one of them was assessed before being taken to hospital in unstable condition. Firefighters used handlines and wildland firefighting equipment to put out the blaze that spread through about two hectares. The fire remains under investigation.
