Person hanging from window rescued, 2 in critical condition after Winnipeg fire – Winnipeg [Video]

Three people were taken to hospital, two of them in critical condition, following an apartment fire on Gaylene Place in Waverley Heights early Saturday morning.

It was just one of four fires over the weekend that kept crews with the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service busy.

The city said crews were called to the blaze around 1:30 a.m., and arrived to find flames coming from the three-storey building.

One occupant had already jumped from the suite where the fire started, and crews used a ladder to rescue a second person who was hanging from the window.

Crews had control of the fire by shortly after 2 a.m.

In the Kirkfield-Westwood neighbourhood around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, fire crews were called to a single-family bungalow in the 400-block of Greenacres Boulevard, where smoke and flames were coming from the house.

No one was home at the time, but crews rescued four dogs …