House sustains significant damage from fire in Bearspaw [Video]

A fire damaged a significant home in Bearspaw Saturday night.

At around 9:15 p.m. Saturday, EMS responded to a residence around Blackwell Bay and Town Road 254 in the Bearspaw community on reports of a house fire.

Laura Kitagema lives across the street and was watching the hockey game when the first fire truck came into the neighbourhood and didn’t think too much of it.

“But when the second and third one came in I got up and looked out and all I could see was flames engulfing the whole house,” she told CTV News Calgary on Sunday.

The couple who owns the home are believed to be in their 70s and took refuge in their car in Kitagema’s driveway.

“It was pretty scary. The sparks were going over our house and over our neighbour’s house,” she said.

“I was so scared that all those trees were going to go …