Winnipeg fire crews called to house, truck blazes overnight

Another night, another round of fires in Winnipeg.

Just before 2 a.m. Thursdaycrews were called to a fire in a vacant house in the 400 block of Sherbrook Street, in the West End.Police said a mattress placed against the back door was burning.

Thatfire has been determined to be arson.

No one was hurt.

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Fire crews were called to a fire in a vacant house in the 400 block of Sherbrook Street, in the West End. Police said a mattress placed against the back door was burning.

About an hour before that, around 1 a.m., atow truck was on fire behind a house in the 200 block of Chalmers Avenue in Elmwood. Crews put that out quickly.

No one was hurt in that fire, either.

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On Wednesday evening, there was smoke but no fire in anapartment block in the 1800 block of Main Street.

The building wasevacuated just after 9 p.m. whena smoke grenade was set off in a third floor stairwell.

No one was hurt.