House fire closes northbound lanes of Disraeli Freeway in Winnipeg

A fire in a vacant duplex causedheavy smoke in the area of the Disraeli Freeway and closed all northbound traffic on the busy thoroughfare through Monday morning.

Emergency crews were called to the two-storey building, at the corner of Disraeli and Lily Street, around 4:40 a.m. Monday.

Flames and smoke werealready pouring out of the structure when they arrived, which madeconditions too unsafe for crews to enter. Instead, an aerial ladder wasused to get water into the structure from above.

Most of the southbound lanes of Disraeli remained open, but the median lane was closed.

No injuries were reportedand the cause of the fire is under investigation.

No damage estimates are available at this time.

The residence also had a fire that sent three people to hospitalin 2018, when it wasa rooming house.

A man told CBC News at the time thathe had to drag his elderly grandmother off the floor and through a window out onto a balcony.

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