Fireplace crews are battling a big hearth that seems to have fully destroyed a apartment constructing underneath development in northwest Calgary.
Calls got here in to the CityNews newsroom simply earlier than 5:30 p.m. Friday a couple of huge hearth on Arbour Lake Street west of Nostril Hill Drive.
Thick black smoke was reported by a number of transit commuters and motorists all through the northwest.
Pictures from the scene present what seems to be a apartment constructing underneath development fully engulfed in flames, with firefighters working to extinguish the hearth.
CityNews cameraman Nick Blakeney was on the scene and says crews have been pushing folks again attributable to an explosion hazard.
“I assume there was a variety of propane tanks and different gases on website, in order that they pushed all people again,” he says.
Blakeney says at the very least a dozen hearth vans have been on the scene, and crews have been utilizing ladder vans to spray water on to the hearth in an effort to get it underneath management.
There’s no phrase on any accidents.
