Tenants have been evacuated from a Halifax apartment building after a fire damaged the structure Tuesday morning.
Flames broke out at the four-storey building on Parkland Drive around 9:30 a.m.
Heavy smoke was billowing out of an apartment on the first floor when firefighters arrived on scene.
They managed to extinguish the flames quickly, but the apartment building had to be evacuated.
“I just heard the fire alarm go off, and usually I don’t think anything of it, but then I came down and the fire trucks were actually here,” says tenant Jessica LaBelle. “I saw smoke coming out of the far end of the building.”
Fire officials say the fire was contained to one room in one unit but the damage is extensive.
“The fire is out. We’ve given the all clear, no injuries,” says Roy Hollett, deputy fire chief of Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency.
Hollett says the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
