Overview
- Emergency crews were dispatched late Monday night and arrived within minutes, with the incident upgraded to a second-alarm soon after to bring extra firefighting resources.
- Fire officials confirmed one death but have not released the victim’s identity and investigators have not determined the fire’s cause.
- First responders evacuated the low-rise building at 13126 82 Street, deployed about 11 fire crews and eight to ten ambulances, and treated multiple people at the scene.
- Edmonton police closed 82 Street between 137 Avenue and Yellowhead Trail while ATCO cut natural gas to about 1,700 nearby customers as a safety precaution.
- The three-storey mixed-use building houses ground-floor businesses and upstairs residences, leaving dozens of tenants displaced and emergency agencies working through structural damage to complete searches and assessments.