Calgary firefighters extinguished a blaze that significantly damaged a home and spread to another in the southeast Ramsay area Saturday.
Battalion Chief Scott Cowen tells 660 NewsRadio that calls about a house fire on Alexander Street came in around 11:40 a.m.
When crews arrived, they saw fire and smoke coming from the home’s basement, which they quickly doused.
Cowen says the fire worked its way from the basement through the walls into the attic, flaring out of a window to the neighbouring home.
However, he says everyone from the initial home and the neighbouring one, two and four people, along with two dogs, had self-evacuated the homes.
No injuries were reported, save one person from the initial home being taken to hospital with smoke inhalation issues.
Cowen says the main home suffered significant damage, including holes in the roof where fire popped out, displacing the two living there.
The damage to the neighbouring home was “pretty significant, mostly to the exterior,” but the interior damage to the other is unclear.
The cause is still under investigation.
