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LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> A mid-afternoon fire on March 30 has temporarily displaced a dozen people, according to the Canadian Red Cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a release, they say the fire damaged the eight-unit apartment building located on Riverside Drive in Lower Sackville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several area local Halifax Fire departments responded to the call and were on scene for several hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dan Bedell, with the Canadian Red Cross, said volunteers have helped 12 people from five apartments with emergency lodging and meals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional support may be offered if needed, including to tenants of the other apartments who arranged to stay with relatives or friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Halifax Transit provided a bus for tenants to shelter in until emergency lodging could be arranged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were no reports of injuries from the mid-afternoon (Wednesday) fire in the two-storey structure on Riverside Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”95″] [adrotate banner=”105″] LOWER SACKVILLE: A mid-afternoon fire on March 30 has temporarily displaced a dozen people, according to the Canadian Red Cross. In a release, they say the fire damaged the eight-unit apartment building located on Riverside Drive in Lower Sackville. Several area local Halifax Fire departments responded to the call and were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[3329,3476,13,3477,25],"class_list":["post-27558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canadian-red-cross","tag-fire-hrm-fire","tag-lower-sackville","tag-riverside-drive","tag-sackville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}