North End Women’s Centre damaged in fire [Video]

The North End Women’s Centre is having to adjust how it delivers its services in the aftermath of an early-morning blaze sparked on its front doorstep.

“It was a very fast-burning fire,” Kris Beaune, the centre’s associate executive director, told CTV News.

She said security video shows someone lighting a garbage can on fire outside the centre around 4 a.m. on Sunday. The fire quickly became a raging blaze.

“It’s going to be tens of thousands of dollars just based on all of the infrastructure pieces that have been impacted,” Beaune said.

Still, she said the fire could have been much worse had it not been for a couple of police officers passing by.

“Officers were flagged down by concerned citizens regarding the fire at 394 Selkirk Avenue,” said Const. Claude Chancy, a public information officer with the Winnipeg Police Service.

He said officers were able to extinguish the blaze …