VIDEO: Fire shoots out of highrise building in Ontario [Video]

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Video shows flames shooting out of a unit in a highrise residential building in Ontario on Wednesday.

It happened in Ottawa on Woodridge Crescent, near Bayshore Shopping Centre.

Ottawa firefighters said in a post that they received multiple 911 calls at around 6:41 p.m. reporting smoke and flames from a 10-floor apartment.

Firefighters got to the scene four minutes after being dispatched and confirmed that smoke and flames were “shooting out of a 10th-floor balcony door,” the post said.

“Firefighters quickly made their way to the 10th floor where they were met with heavy black smoke throughout the hallway and zero visibility conditions,” officials said. 

Firefighters contained a fire in a residential high-rise last night near Bayshore mall.

At approx. 18:41, the Ottawa Fire Services Communications Division received multiple 9-1-1 calls reporting smoke and flames from a 10th floor apartment in a residential high-rise in …