He responded to calls about a fire in the Harvest Hills community around 1:20 a.m. on September 10. When crews arrived on scene, the department said firefighters saw smoke coming from an attached garage of a multi-family complex. Crews were able to contain the fire to the garage, but found two adults inside who were pronounced dead immediately. Another adult and two children who also lived in the complex managed to escape without injury. “Luckily the doors to the adjacent units were closed, so the fire was contained to the garage,” Gordon Best, the department’s northern district chief, told CBC News. It was likely a “confined fire,” the fire chief said, meaning it ran out of oxygen and started to die out before it could spread. “The fire itself didn’t do much damage, but obviously there’s the human toll that took place.” Arson investigators are on scene to determine the cause and origin of the fire, Best said.
