GUELPH/ERAMOSA – While many had been making ready Thanksgiving feasts on Monday afternoon, firefighters in Guelph/Eramosa and Puslinch had been speeding to battle a fireplace.
Shortly after 1pm, firefighters arrived on the scene, on Highway 7 close to Wellington Road 29, to discover a workshop “with heavy smoke and flames coming from the side of the building,” mentioned Mike Smits, captain with the Guelph/Eramosa Fire Department.
Inside the burning building was a household’s pet cat.
Smits mentioned the residents tried to enter the building to save lots of the cat previous to the arrival of firefighters, however they had been turned again by the thick smoke.
“We ventilated the structure and one of our firefighters went in with a breathing apparatus and brought out the cat,” Smits mentioned.
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When the cat was carried out of the building Smits mentioned it was “basically unconscious – in pretty rough shape.”
Another firefighter gave the cat oxygen and “kitty first aid,” and inside a pair hours the cat was again to regular, Smits mentioned.
Fifteen firefighters from the Rockwood station responded to the decision with 5 vans, alongside six Puslinch firefighters in two vans.
They rapidly knocked down the flames after which “spent a bunch of time dealing with hot spots in the walls and attic area,” Smits mentioned.
The partitions had been product of metallic cladding with picket insulation.
Guelph/Eramosa firefighters had been referred to as again to the scene later Monday night, as a result of one of many hotspots started smouldering.
“We weren’t able to pick it up with the thermal imaging camera,” Smits mentioned.
“So it reignited. It was just smouldering, so we went back, removed more of the wall cladding, and extinguished it.”
An official injury estimate shouldn’t be but available, however Smits guessed it’s between $150,000 and $200,000. He suspects the workshop may be repaired.
The reason behind the fireplace is undetermined, however it isn’t thought-about suspicious, he added.
