A home was damaged in an early morning fire Monday in Calgary’s Panorama Hills neighbourhood.
Calgary Fire Department crews responded to the home in the 100 block of Panamount Street N.W. at 5:30 a.m.
Battalion Chief Paul Frederick said when crews arrived, they faced heavy smoke and flames coming from the two-storey house.
Five people were in the house at the time and they all got themselves out before firefighters arrived.
EMS said a man was taken to hospital in stable, non-life threatening condition with injuries unrelated to the fire.
Damage was limited to the one house, Frederick said.
This wasn’t the first time a home in this location has caught fire.
In 2013, two families were left homeless after a fire that started in the basement of one home sparked a neighbouring one.
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Neighbours that have lived in the area for both incidents are now left worried.
“Last time, the damage actually extended to the house next door,” Gurick Kooner said. “So it’s kind of concerning in that sense that it could reach you.”
The Calgary Fire Department said it’s not known how long the residents will be displaced from the home.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
– With files from Global News’ Josh Ritchie
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