Fire crews were on the scene of a fatal house fire on Sunday morning that left one person dead.
Crews responded to the fire at 2 a.m. on the 2500 block of Elliot Street. A person was found dead following a search of the building.
“What a way to wake up,” neighbour Colton Fritzler said as he recalled the early moments of the fire.
Fritzler said he woke up around 2 a.m., and heard knocking on his neighbours doors and windows, but when he went to see what was happening, he couldn’t see the street.
“There was so much smoke blowing across the street that I couldn’t see the street,” he said. “I open the front door and the police are there knocking on the windows and yelling, telling me there’s a house on fire.”
Fritzler said he woke up his wife, grabbed the cats and made their way outside and down the alley.
“Shortly after that happened, you couldn’t see the front of the house and then the ceiling just explodes from the heat.”
As for the person that passed away from the fire, Fritzler said he was friends with them, and the news was hard to hear.
“We are kind of feeling in shock, and we are grateful we are okay,” he said thinking about his wife. “It is really sad and we are just trying to figure all this out.”
Regina fire said the cause of the fire was from “careless use of smoker’s material.”