A fire broke out at Yellowknife’s Sunridge Apartments on Thursday afternoon, triggering the closure of 51A Avenue.
For an hour, smoke billowed from what appeared to be a fire on the lower floor of the residential apartment building.
The cause was not immediately clear, nor whether anyone had been hurt.
“Yellowknife RCMP was dispatched to a report of a fire at the Sunridge Apartments at approximately 2:31pm,” police confirmed in a statement, adding that it was “too early” for any more detail about what had taken place.
The City of Yellowknife’s fire division has been approached for comment.
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Sunridge Apartments, also known as Sunridge Place, is listed by owner Northview as a 25-unit building. The number of units involved in Thursday’s fire could not be immediately determined.
Smoke poured from a broken window and various doors in the central and right-hand sections of the building, viewed from 51A Avenue, as firefighters made their way inside. Fire crews focused their attention primarily on the bottom-right unit nearest the street.
An evacuation appeared to have taken place, including a brief altercation between a police officer and a woman as she was ushered away from the building.
By 3:45pm, while smoke still seeped from one unit, the situation appeared under far more control. Even so, a section of the street remained blocked off.
