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Multiple pets die in barn fire outside Winkler, Manitoba

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A number of pets are dead after a barn in southern Manitoba caught fire.

Plum Coulee Fire Chief Tony Fehr said 17 to 18 firefighters from Plum Coulee and Winkler arrived at the barn fire shortly after 2 p.m. Friday and found it fully engulfed in flames.

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“There were a few pets left inside the barn that didn’t make it,” Fehr said.

It took the crews more than two hours to calm the flames.

Fehr said the fire started from a plug-in electric heater and estimated the damage to be $40 – $50,000.

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