Apartment fire at 124 Avenue P South

At 06:56 this morning the Saskatoon Fire Department received a single 9-1-1 call reporting a fire in an apartment building with a person possibly trapped inside.  Thee Engine companies, one Ladder Truck, One Heavy Rescue Truck and a Battalion Chief responded.  On arrival, the first in crew noted heavy black smoke from an apartment window on the second floor south side of the three story apartment building.  

A fire attack line along with a back up fire line and search teams entered the building.  With in 10 minutes of arriving on scene crews located the seat of the fire in suite 202 where an unconscious male in his thirties was found and immediately removed from the building.  The patient was initially treated by Fire Department Paramedics then transported to hospital with undetermined injuries by an ambulance crew standing by at the scene.  The fire which was confined to one suite was brought under control shortly after.  All other suites in the building were searched for residents and fire.  There is no fire extension to any other areas of the building and no other injuries as a result of this fire.

A fire investigator has determined the fire to be incendiary in mature and the estimates the damage at $30,000.  After determining CO levels to be within safe limits residents of the building were allowed to return to their suites.