St. Albert city councillor Sheena Hughes has asked administration to study the possible benefits and consequences of implementing an penalty or increased tax rate on properties that have been deemed uninhabitable.
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Publishing date: May 14, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 2 minute read • Firefighters were on scene at a seniors home fire in St. Albert, Alberta on Friday May 7, 2021. The fire started at the Citadel Mews West seniors care facility around 8pm on Thursday evening. More than 100 seniors were forced to evacuate and find lodging elsewhere. and three were taken to hospital. Photo by Larry Wong /Postmedia
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A devastating fire at a St. Albert seniors’ care home last week began on a first floor patio, investigators have concluded as they continue to determine the exact cause.
Fire investigators have found the blaze started last Thursday on the ground floor of the Capital Mews continuing care centre and went undetected, allowing it to spread, reads a statement posted to the City of St. Albert’s website Friday. Flames spread from patio furniture to the underside of the deck above before spreading to the vinyl siding of the
Sigvaldason s daughter Connie Clark recounted the ordeal to CTV News Edmonton. They just kept saying, There s more buses coming, everybody s been evacuated, don t worry, It was real pandemonium that night, and chaos, said Clark. Everyone was doing an amazing job. I just had to keep asking the question, Where is my mom? Clark s mother has dementia and was in the independent living section of Citadel Mews as the retirement home burned. Something went wrong with the evacuation, said Clark. That needs to be looked into so this doesn t happen again. In a written statement to CTV News Edmonton, the City of St. Albert said the first room-by-room search was completed by 9:14 p.m., then a second search was carried out.
EDMONTON Organizations and residents in St. Alberta continue to help residents affected by the massive fire Thursday evening at a retirement home in that community. The blaze at Citadel Mews West left more than 100 people homeless. The City of St. Albert has partnered with the Canadian Red Cross to get donations to victims of the fire. Local eyewear providers are offering free glasses and lenses to anyone who may have lost theirs in the fire. Douglas Reinbold, a consultant with MDO Opticians, told CTV News Edmonton in an interview that he immediately wanted to help. “When we saw the devastation of the fire we thought, what is it that we can we do to help out?”