Early morning Nutana neighbourhood fire leaves 1 dead, 6 others shaken
One person is dead and six others shaken after a house fire in Saskatoon's Nutana neighbourhood early Friday morning forced people to jump from windows to escape the flames.
The victim was 25 years old. The fire department is not releasing his name at this time.
"There was another two people on the third floor who managed to exit through what's been reported as a second floor window, because at that point the main floor was fully involved and not able to be manoeuvered through," said assistant fire chief Yvonne Raymer.
Crews were called to the heavily-treed lot on the 500 block of Albert Avenue at around 2:30 a.m. CST Friday. They arrived to find the main floor and front of the house on fire.
There were seven people living at the house.
Kelly Wells lives across the street.
"Big orange flames shooting out of the top of the house. I mean, luckily it doesn't look like it went sideways, I don't know, it looked like it was straight up," she said.
Fire investigators remain on the scene.
There is no word yet on how the fire started.
