A person was rescued from a burning building in Sandy Hill Thursday morning, as firefighters battled a fire in a building with multiple townhouse units near the University of Ottawa. Ottawa Fire Services says 9-1-1 operators received several calls just before 5:30 a.m. Thursday reporting thick black smoke and flames coming from a building with four, three-storey townhouses in the 100 block of Osgoode Street. The fire was originally reported on Sweetland Avenue.
"Firefighters arrived on scene 3 minutes after being dispatched to the call and reported smoke and flames coming from two of the townhomes," Ottawa Fire said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. A photo released by the Ottawa Fire Service showed flames coming out of a window on the second storey of the building. More than an hour after the fire started, smoke was still coming out of the building