A Flin Flon woman has perished and two others were injured after a house fire on Fifth Avenue.
Firefighters were alerted to the scene at about 1:30 am last Saturday, June 10. Light smoke was visible from outside the house, located at 7 Fifth Avenue.
Fire Chief Chad Cooper said an occupant who had escaped out of a bedroom window met firefighters outside, telling them there were still two others inside.
“He was saying there was one female occupant upstairs still and one male in the basement,” said Cooper. “Fire crews went into an aggressive search-and-rescue mode.”
One of those occupants, a 40-year old woman, was found unconscious and not breathing. Firefighters performed CPR on the woman and revived her.
While en route to Flin Flon General Hospital by ambulance, the woman stopped breathing and could not be revived, Cooper said.
“The medical staff tried for several hours to get her back, but with no success,” said Cooper.
The 44-year-old male who escaped the home was medevaced to Winnipeg and put in a medically induced coma, Cooper said.
He said the man was in intensive care as of Monday, having stabilized after earlier being listed in critical condition.
“He’s expected to make a full recovery,” said Cooper.
RCMP said the man was the homeowner.
The third occupant, a 41-year-old man, was treated at the scene and sent to hospital. He has since been released.
The fire was ruled accidental, caused by an overloaded electrical socket in the kitchen, Cooper said.
“It was a splitter, one of those ones you plug in and it changes from two plugs to
six,” he said. “It overheated, melted the plastic and caught the counter on fire in the kitchen.”
