Social to help those displaced
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- Published on Thursday, March 5, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
A benefit social has been planned to help those who lost their homes in the fire at Neepawa Home Hardware last Wednesday night. To be held March 21 at the Yellowhead Centre, the social evening will be held in two parts, offering something for everyone.
The start of a long process
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- Published on Thursday, March 5, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
Almost a week after the fire, Neepawa Home Hardware owner Pat Guilbert has a long road ahead of him. On Wednesday evening, he watched the store he bought in September 2008, and expanded since then, burn. Like the tenants, he too lost irreplaceable items in the fire.
‘We lost everything, we came out with the clothes we had on’
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- Published on Thursday, March 5, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
It was just after 6 p.m. last Wednesday when Arlene Vaughan first noticed smoke rising from the back of the Neepawa Home Hardware building. In addition to working in the store, Vaughan and her husband Tom lived in one of the four apartments above the hardware store.
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Q and A with Neepawa fire chief Scott Gibson
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- Published on Thursday, March 5, 2015
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Banner
Just over a week removed from the devastating blaze that destroyed the Home Hardware building in Neepawa, Fire Department chief Scott Gibson describes exactly how the evening played out for the volunteers and emergency personnel who were the first line of defence against the flames.
When did you first receive the call?
“At around 6:13 pm, we received the initial page to a structure fire. As soon as you walked out the door that evening, you could see the smoke, so we knew we were going to something serious, right from the start. We began entry into the building. There was a key holder there who let us in. At that time, there was no smoke, no flame on the main, store level of the building. There was nothing showing on the second level, other than smoke. Upon investigation into the building, the fire was actually burning between the two shells of the old building and the new building.”
