UPDATE: Firefighters undergo ‘extensive salvage’ at neighbouring Barrhaven homes
Posted Mar 26, 2021 12:55:00 AM.
Two families are displaced following a two-alarm fire that started in the garage of a home in the city's west end, which required a major clean up by crews.
According to Ottawa Fire Services, firefighters responded to the scene at 31 and 33 Burntwood Ave. at Nottingham Crt., near Queensbury and Beatrice Drives, in Barrhaven Thursday, at about 7:20 p.m.
Two single family detached houses were involved.
The caller said there was no one in the house and that the attached garage in the one home was engulfed in flames with the fire then spreading to a neighbouring home.
When firefighters arrived, the fire had already extended into the main structures of each house.
The main body of the fires in the garages were knocked down and searched to ensure everyone was out.
One resident required medical attention and was cared for by firefighters before being transferred to the care of the Ottawa Paramedic Services.
The second alarm was declared just after 7:30 p.m., which required additional resources to control the fire in the homes.
Crews continued opening sections of the walls and attic to extinguish the remaining hot spots, and ventilated the smoke from the structure before declaring the fire under control just before 8:30 p.m.
An extensive overhaul and salvage was underway.
An investigator has been dispatched to the scene to determine the cause of the blaze.
