Firefighters busy with three early morning fires in freezing conditions

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Ottawa fire crews were busy in Ottawa’s continued cold freeze early Saturday, with three working fires since 2 a.m.

Due to the extreme cold conditions, a second alarm was called to a single-family home Stittsville.

The home was in the 1200 block of Kittiwake Drive off of Chantilly Gt & Sirocco Cres.

Occupants managed to escape to the backyard in their bare feet, but they were trapped there due to the flames.

Firefighters got them out safely and they were placed on one of the trucks.

“Firefighters immediately began treating them for frostbite on their feet,” OFS reported.

Paramedics treated four people at the scene for frostbite and smoke inhalation.

Earlier, hundreds of Algonquin College students left an apartment residence on Navaho Drive after an alarm sounded.

There was a small fire at about 3 a.m. Saturday at Algonquin College Residence. Photo by Nicholas Doucet /POSTMEDIA

Firefighters followed smoke on the first floor and were able to extinguish a fire.

Students sheltered in a nearby campus building while crews were working. There were no injuries reported.

The first fire occurred at about 2 a.m. in a Daley Avenue apartment building. The fire was in a bedroom and was quickly extinguished.

Residents were cleared from the building and sheltered in an OC Transpo bus.

There was one reported injury.

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