{"id":703723,"date":"2026-05-30T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/703723\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:36:18","slug":"video-no-injuries-as-fire-destroys-multiple-homes-on-geary-crescent-in-saskatoon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/703723\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: No injuries as fire destroys multiple homes on Geary Crescent in Saskatoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major fire in Saskatoon completely destroyed at least four homes on Friday.<\/p>\n

The blaze, which was reported shortly after noon on Geary Crescent in the city\u2019s Hampton Village neighbourhood quickly spread to several homes and garages, sending a thick, black plume of smoke into the sky, which was visible from across the city.<\/p>\n

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The City of Saskatoon said no injuries were reported, and all occupants were safely evacuated. A total of 32 firefighters were sent to the scene, the city said, along with two aerial units, four engines, a rescue unit and a battalion chief.<\/p>\n

In an update issued shortly before 2 p.m., the city said firefighters \u201chave taken defensive position to prevent further spread.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lenore Moen said she witnessed the fire after spotting the \u201ccrazy black smoke\u201d while she was driving into the Dundonald area on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Saskatoon firefighters on Geary Crescent battling a house fire on May 29, 2026. (Marija Robinson\/650 CKOM)<\/p>\n

Moen said there was initially one home burning, but the flames quickly spread. She said she saw at least four homes on fire at the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe smoke is so black that you can\u2019t really see much.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Moen said there were \u201ca ton\u201d of firefighters on the scene doing everything they could to battle the blaze, \u201cbut it\u2019s not slowing it down.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the fire department has asked the public to stay well back from the scene, where quite a few people had gathered.<\/p>\n

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The blaze on completely destroyed several homes in Saskatoon\u2019s Hampton Village neighbourhood on May 29, 2026. (Marija Robinson\/650 CKOM)<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s, of course, just devastated and hoping that there\u2019s nobody hurt by this,\u201d Moen said.<\/p>\n

650 CKOM reporter Marija Robinson said firefighters seemed to be getting the situation under control by around 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe black smoke seems to have finally died down. It\u2019s no longer billowing up into the air, and there\u2019s very few flames that I can still see, but now we\u2019re really starting to see the extent of the damage,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour homes are completely destroyed. There\u2019s people here who are crying because they\u2019re seeing what\u2019s happened to their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Videos from the scene showed black smoke coming from the charred and blackened skeleton of a house on the street, as firefighters sprayed water on the wreckage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting a clearer picture of how awful it is,\u201d Robinson added.<\/p>\n

One of the homes destroyed in the fire belonged to Mohit Nayyer.<\/p>\n

He said he was at work when he found out about the fire.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a notification that two guys were coming and knocking on the door and I just wanted to see, and at that time it was like a little smoke so I thought, maybe you know, there is like a tiny fire, but then within minutes it was like black smoke coming out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nayyer said he quickly jumped in his vehicle to come home, only to find fire and dark black smoke rising from his street.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw really thick smoke as I was driving towards home,\u201d he said. \u201cI could see, like, a really big cloud of smoke, you know, all black, and then as I got closer, I saw four houses all on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Firefighters spray water on burning homes on Geary Crescent in Saskatoon on May 29, 2026. (Marija Robinson\/650 CKOM)<\/p>\n

Nayyer said he was more concerned about his neighbour than about his own home.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe works nights, and so she sleeps during the day, and they have a dog, but yeah, it looks like they are all outside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While his home may be unrecognizable from when he left for work this morning, he said it could always be worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to see your house, where you live, you know, where your family lives and everything, you know, everything\u2019s gone. Yeah, it\u2019s sad to see, and you know, I\u2019m still processing everything, but at least you know everybody is OK, like nobody is in there in the fire right now,\u201d said Nayyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major fire in Saskatoon completely destroyed at least four homes on Friday. The blaze, which was reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-703723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703723","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=703723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}