Nobody hurt in Whitehorse house fire, 1 cat receiving medical care

Cali McTavish · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 03, 2025 8:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

A location occurrence successful Whitehorse's McIntyre subdivision has destroyed 1 location and damaged another. 

The occurrence connected Hanna Crescent was reported astir 1 p.m. Tuesday by neighbours who were connected their backmost structure having a barbecue. They said they ran implicit to the location with occurrence extinguishers, but were incapable to tame the flames. 

One bystander said idiosyncratic told him determination were animals inactive trapped inside. He tried to participate the location to prevention them, but it was excessively hot. 

When occurrence crews arrived, the location was already afloat engulfed successful flames. 

"Fire was coming retired the sides," said occurrence main Travis Whiting. He said the origin of the occurrence is not yet known. 

All occupants were capable to flight the location without injury, but immoderate of their pets weren't truthful lucky.

Six cats lived astatine the property. Whiting said aesculapian services were being provided to 1 of the animals. He said it's imaginable the different pets were killed, but was not capable to confirm.

Whiting said determination was harm to 1 of the neighbouring homes that removed a important chunk of the siding. 

Fire crews besides monitored the wooded country down the home. Whiting said wildfire hazard successful and astir the metropolis is presently low, but "as the summertime starts to adust things out, it becomes a higher level of concern."