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A person who was burned in a townhouse fireplace in southeast Calgary Thursday morning has died from his accidents, Calgary firefighters say.
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Crews acquired a name a few fireplace at a townhouse on Penville Shut SE at round 7.25am after a resident smelled smoke.
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When firefighters arrived and tried to achieve entry to a room believed to have began the hearth, they encountered a locked door.
“THe pressured entry to the room the place the hearth was and located an unconscious, unresponsive man with vital burns,” fireplace division spokeswoman Carol Henke stated in a press launch.
“He was shortly introduced exterior and care was transferred to EMS paramedics. Firefighters assisted with CPR within the ambulance and on the best way to the hospital. Tragically, the affected person succumbed to his accidents.”
The hearth was extinguished shortly and to the room the place it originated, with minor smoke harm to an upstairs hallway, Henke stated.
And whereas firefighters stated they heard activated smoke alarms on the scene, there was no such system within the room the place the hearth broke out, she stated.
The reason for the hearth stays beneath investigation by authorities, which embrace the routine involvement of town police’s arson unit, though the hearth will not be being handled as suspicious, Henke stated.
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