{"id":40880,"date":"2023-11-28T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=40880"},"modified":"2023-11-28T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T15:00:05","slug":"fire-crews-douse-elmsdale-structure-fire-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=40880","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews douse Elmsdale structure fire quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> No one was injured in an early evening structure fire on Hwy 2 in Elmsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire Crews from six departments responded to the call of a fire at a duplex\/apartment building near Jessy\u2019s Pizza in Elmsdale at around 7;30 p.m. Nov. 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Bowen, Incident Commander on scene from Elmsdale Fire, said approximately 40-45 firefighters were on scene until around 10 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpon our arrival there was visible fire from the front door and window of the main fire unit,\u201d said Bowen in an interview with The Laker News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;190&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowen said all occupants of the building were already evacuated when crews arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the road\/parking lot got icy as operations progressed, so a call was put into TIR to send a salt truck to apply salt.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters from Elmsdale, with mutual aid responses from Lantz, Milford, Nine Mile River, Enfield, and HRM Station 40 responded to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Station 40 was released after the fire was knocked down and provided coverage for the area at our station until all crews cleared scene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowen said one occupant was in the fire unit at the time of the fire. Several of the other units in the building were also occupied,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said one occupant was checked out by EHS on scene and released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the cause of the fire, it remains under investigation, said Bowen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] ELMSDALE: No one was injured in an early evening structure fire on Hwy 2 in Elmsdale. Fire Crews from six departments responded to the call of a fire at a duplex\/apartment building near Jessy\u2019s Pizza in Elmsdale at around 7;30 p.m. Nov. 25. Adam Bowen, Incident Commander on scene from Elmsdale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[2283,196,1085,32,121,3355,1204,48],"class_list":["post-40880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-apartment-fire","tag-east-hants","tag-elmsdale-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-hrm","tag-hwy-2","tag-lantz-fire","tag-n-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40880","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=40880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}