Flowers lay on the snowy sidewalk outside a townhouse in northeast Edmonton’s Clareview area, where a child reportedly lost their life in an overnight fire.

The blaze at the Clareview Village townhouse complex near 31 Street and 132A Avenue in the Belmont neighbourhood broke out around 1:30 a.m. Friday.

Global News spoke to several neighbours in the area who were too upset to appear on camera, but shared what they saw and heard.

A woman who shares an adjacent wall with the unit where the fire happened woke to banging on her door.

She opened it to see her neighbour outside, face covered in ash and without a coat or winter gear on.

The woman welcomed her neighbour into her home, and other family members followed.

Then firefighters, police and paramedics arrived to assess the family

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