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Meanwhile, construction workers in the area alerted neighbours living on either side of the home to the fire.
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WATCH: A family of four escaped a house fire in northeast Calgary Tuesday. As Tony Tighe reports, it was quick thinking construction workers who called it in.
One of the construction workers, Carlo Carlesimo, told Global News it appeared a motorcycle was running in the garage right before the fire started.
“Initially there was a guy driving by and he kind of just stopped in the middle of the road,” Carlesimo said. “He got out very quickly so I kind of took a peek to see what was going on and I noticed that the [motorcycle] had just started lighting on fire.”
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“So we ran up there – I called the fire department. We were banging on the doors to get everybody outside.”