A man is dead and three people are in hospital following a rooming house fire in Point Douglas on Friday Night.
Emergency crews were on scene Friday in the 100 block of Euclid Avenue after receiving a call at 11:15 p.m. that the home was on fire.
Neighbour Matt Thordarson lives two doors from the blaze.
“We were watching movies and I heard sirens going off and I knew something big was going on,” Thordarson said. “We came around the corner and there was flames coming out.”
Five people were evacuated from the building. Police say three are now in stable condition in hospital after suffering injuries while escaping.
One other person, who police describe as an adult male in his 40s, has been pronounced dead.
Thordarson told Global News on Saturday that he saw people jumping from the home’s top floor window to safety.
“People were trying to get out any way they could,” Thordarson said. “It was just chaos.”
He said he believes the house is home to multiple different rooms and more than a dozen residents.
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The home involved in the blaze has made headlines before: three months ago, it was the site of a homicide after a 29-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman were both stabbed. The man died in hospital.
Winnipeg police said on Saturday that they are not actively searching for any suspects in relation to Friday’s fire. The investigation into what happened in the moments leading up to the blaze, however, is ongoing.
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