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The Saskatoon fire department had a busy start to the weekend, as crews battled two separate structure fires in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Shortly after 1 a.m., firefighters were called to a house on the 300 block of Childers Crescent.
When they got there, firefighters “observed flames coming from the rear of the house.”
While one crew hooked up their hoses and started spraying the house’s exterior, more firefighters went in to confirm that all the house’s occupants had made it safely outside.
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Meanwhile, around 2 a.m., firefighters were also called to a second fire halfway across the city, in a “large commercial building” on the 800 block of 2nd Ave N.
Firefighters “observed smoke and fire” coming from the rear of the building, and started spraying both the outside and the inside of the building with water.
By 7 a.m., the fire department confirmed that both fires had been “completely extinguished,” no one had been injured in either location, and fire investigators were on-scene to determine the fire causes and origins and estimate the cost and extent of the damage.
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