The Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of a blaze at a high rise building in Centretown that led to two deaths.<\/p>\n
Ottawa Fire Services received a call from a monitoring agency reporting active fire alarms at a building in the 300 block of Somerset St. W. shortly after 9:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
Multiple 9-1-1 calls were also placed, reporting a fire in on the 19th floor of an apartment building. Fire Services says one caller contacted 9-1-1 from the balcony of the unit on fire, saying they were trapped due to intense heat, heavy smoke and flames.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, firefighters quickly determined the fire was serious and worked fast to rescue the trapped occupants<\/p>\n
Crews made their way to the 19th floor where they were met with heavy smoke and flames from floor to ceiling. <\/p>\n
Responders advanced a hose line and began to search for trapped occupants. Three unconcious residents were found inside the unit. A fourth resident was located on the balcony. That occupant was conscious.<\/p>\n
A fifth resident was assisted out of a neighbouring unit.<\/p>\n
All of the rescued occupants received treatment from paramedics. Two residents received CPR but were later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n
Inside the unit, firefighters were able to contain the spread and the fire was declared under control shortly after 10 p.m.<\/p>\n
An Ottawa Fire Investigator attended the scene and the Ontario Fire Marshall will also be attending as the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n
A fire watch remains in place and a fire truck is on scene to monitor for any potential flare-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of a blaze at a high rise building in Centretown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-538387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538387","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=538387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}