{"id":145778,"date":"2025-09-15T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145778\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:03:17","slug":"massive-apartment-fire-in-sackville-n-s-forces-hundreds-to-evacuate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145778\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive apartment fire in Sackville, N.S. forces hundreds to evacuate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Halifax Professional Firefighters Association says a fire that broke out at an apartment complex just after midnight on Monday forced almost 200 people out of their homes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757757246_757_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Images from the scene show large flames, and smoke billowing from the four-story apartment building during an overnight fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, crews encountered heavy smoke and flames and quickly went offensive on the main body of fire. The incident was quickly upgraded to a Third Alarm structure fire,\u201d the firefighter association said.<\/p>\n<p>They added that firefighters were pulled from across the city to put the fire out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident demanded a massive amount of resources from across the city,\u201d HPFA said.<\/p>\n<p>However, no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFirefighters work to put out a fire that broke out at an apartment in Sackville, N.S.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tHalifax Professional Firefighters Association\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An evacuation order was put into place for after a fire broke out at an apartment on Hanwell Drive in Middle Sackville, N.S. More than 180 people had to evacuate but that has since been lifted as of 7:30 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>All residents are allowed to return to their homes, except for one specific address which the city said has extensive damage and remains unsafe.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>An evacuation centre was been opened at the Springfield Lake Recreation Centre to assist any residents impacted by the fire, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, people are asked to avoid the area of 119 Hanwell Drive as firefighting operations are still underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is still smoke in the area, so local residents are advised to stay inside and turn off air exchangers due to air quality,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11422853\/university-toronto-professor-charlie-kirk-comment-backlash\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4a42ca5d843518d73b5786eabc84077f16055d02f651365bae73e7d3d872c15e.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tUniversity of Toronto professor on leave after Charlie Kirk comments draw backlash\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11417057\/2025-emmys-red-carpet-fashion-best-dressed\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757944997_772_Untitled-design-24.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t2025 Emmy Awards: The most dazzling red carpet looks from TV\u2019s biggest night\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The municipality noted Routes 83\/183 are still on detour, bypassing the subdivision due to the fire. They said there is currently no service to Beaconsfield Way, Darlington Drive, Hanwell Drive and Swindon Drive. Buses will continue straight on Sackville Drive in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFirefighters work to put out a fire that broke out at an apartment in Sackville, N.S.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tHalifax Professional Firefighters Association\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFirefighters work to put out a fire that broke out at an apartment in Sackville, N.S.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tHalifax Professional Firefighters Association\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Halifax Professional Firefighters Association says a fire that broke out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1132,77966,43,44,15002,77965,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-145778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-fire","9":"tag-halifax-fire","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sackville","13":"tag-sackville-fire","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}