Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) responded to a fire on Selkirk Avenue Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Firefighters responded to a report of a fire just after 10 p.m. Saturday, in a two-and-half storey residential building on the 300 block of Selkirk Avenue. <\/p>\n
When crews arrived, they found smoke coming from the building. They were able to bring the fire under control about half an hour later.<\/p>\n
All occupants of the house safely self-evacuated prior to the arrival of crews. The City\u2019s emergency social services team helped residents displaced by the fire.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported. Damage estimates were not yet available.<\/p>\n
WFPS said that according their preliminary findings the fire was accidental and likely caused by smoking.<\/p>\n
Authorities urge residents to exercise caution when smoking indoors and share the following tips:<\/p>\n
Always put smoking materials out in a proper ashtray or a deep metal container. Place the container on a stable surface, away from anything that can burn.<\/p>\n
Never smoke in bed or on surfaces that can easily catch fire, such as upholstered furniture.<\/p>\n
Stay fully alert while smoking. Do not smoke if you feel sleepy or after taking medications or substances that can make you drowsy.<\/p>\n
Make sure ashes and cigarette butts are completely out before throwing them away. The safest way is to soak them in water or sand.<\/p>\n
Keep cigarettes, lighters, matches, and other smoking materials out of children\u2019s reach or locked away.<\/p>\n
Never throw cigarette butts from balconies, decks, or car windows. Do not dispose of them near grass, leaves, brush, or other vegetation.<\/p>\n
Never use a plant pot as an ashtray. Potting soil contains combustible materials such as peat moss and shredded wood. A cigarette butt can smolder for hours and heat the container until it cracks, allowing oxygen in and potentially spreading fire to nearby materials like decks, balconies, or walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) responded to a fire on Selkirk Avenue Saturday night. Firefighters responded to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-630661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630661","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=630661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}