22 people displaced as ‘stubborn’ fire guts west Edmonton apartment building

Nearly two dozen people and nearly as many pets have been left without a home after a fire gutted the inside of an apartment building just off Stony Plain Road in the west end.

Edmonton Fire Rescue Services said it received a call just after 5 p.m. Wednesday about an apartment on fire in the Canora neighbourhood.

Crews arrived at 5:09 p.m. to find heavy smoke billowing out of the third floor of Lyndon Court (10131 152 St.), a three-storey walk-up apartment building.

But when firefighters went inside and checked all the suites, there was plenty of smoke — but no fire.

“We could smell the smoke and then figured out it was on the third floor, in the walls between the second and third floor,” Edmonton fire district Chief Darren Stolk said on Wednesday night.

Then, the hunt was on.

“We