Fire rips through house in northwest Calgary

Fire crews battled a house fire in Sandstone Valley in northwest Calgary early Tuesday morning.

A neighbour called emergency crews at about 5:30 a.m. to report that a home on the 300 block of Sandstone Drive N.W. was in flames.

When crews arrived, flames and smoke were showing, said Batt. Chief Paul Frederick.

No one was in the house, he said.

There were no injuries. The single storey house was severelydamaged, Frederick said.

Neighbour OfeliaRain said it was a frightening scene.

"I came outside, the house in the west was burning and then I was afraid for my neighbour's house so I called him. It was terrible here, the flames were shooting, it was really bad," she said.

Fire crews brought the fire under control by about 6:20 a.m.