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A man is seriously hurt after an apartment fire in Regina’s Transitional Area neighbourhood.
Regina Fire crews on scene told 980 CJME the man was rushed to the hospital by ambulance after being rescued from the fire on Thursday morning.
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Fire crews found the blaze in one of the units on the main floor of the Langholm Lodge on Smith Street. Daniel Perron said he was getting ready for work when the fire alarms started going off, and the smell of smoke started to fill the air.
He said it prompted one thought: his family.
“Get my girlfriend to safety. That was my main thing. And my cats, of course, they’re my family too. It was just mainly get the people I love to safety, get her up so she’s out of the building. My first thing was protection.”
Daniel Perron and Jenna Devernichuk say the Thursday morning fire is a wake up call to better prepare for an evacuation in the future. (Credit: Abby Zieverink/980CJME)
Perron said he quickly woke up his girlfriend to check if everything was okay, and they walked out of their third-floor unit to see smoke on the main floor.
“I flew straight into action, like, ‘Hey, we got to get our cats and us out.’ I was panicking, girlfriend’s panicking, and everyone’s out of the building,” said Perron.
“It was a pretty stressful way to start the day.”
Firefighters said the unit where the fire started is damaged from the blaze, with a few other units left with smoke and water damage.
Perron said the fire was a wake-up call to be more prepared in case of a future blaze.
“A little worried and still stressed, of course … I’m hoping that we’ll be able to go back in soon. If we have to find a new place, that’s going to be a bit hard in today’s economy.”
Regina Fire said they responded to an apartment fire on 2200 Smith Street at 6:40 a.m. on Thursday morning. By 7:30 a.m. crews on scene said the fire had been put out. (Credit: Abby Zieverink/980CJME)
Another resident in the building, Coby Chaboyer, was awoken by knocking at his door Thursday morning.
“When I woke up, I noticed sort of a funny smell. I didn’t know it was smoke at the time. One of my neighbours was knocking on my door, and I scrambled to put clothes on, and I answered the door, and he was telling me that the apartment underneath mine was on fire.”
But Chaboyer is grateful for that neighbour.
“Especially because I’m not too chatty, I say hi to my neighbours whenever I get the chance, but I’m not too chatty of a person, so it feels nice to have them bother to do that.”
The fire inspector is looking into how the fire started.
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