WFPS responds to five overnight fires [Video]

The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) was kept busy overnight Thursday as crews responded to five fires in less than eight hours.

The first fire took place just before 7 p.m. on Thursday in a commercial warehouse on Edwin Street.

Crews quickly brought the fire under control after finding smoke and flames coming from the building.

No one was inside the building at the time of the fire.

Just over an hour later at 8:13 p.m., crews were called to the second fire in a bungalow in the 100 block of Dearborn Avenue.

When firefighters got to the scene, they found smoke and flames coming from the home, with the fire extending to a neighbouring house.

The WFPS launched an interior attack, declaring the fire under control by 8:44 p.m.

Occupants of both homes got out safely before crews arrived. The city brought in its emergency social services team to …