Four animals perished in a basement fire at a house on Dieppe Street early Tuesday, but four residents managed to escape the building.
A 911 caller reported the fire in the Rideau-Vanier ward at 2:33 a.m., saying smoke and flames were visible in the basement of the home in the 300 block of Dieppe.
Responding firefighters arrived about four minutes later and saw heavy, black smoke coming from the house.
The residents informed crews that, while they had got out safely, along with one dog, four other pets — three cats and a dog — remained in the structure.
Firefighters advanced a hose line through the front door and came up against “active flames” in the basement, the fire service said in a news release Tuesday. It said suppression efforts were immediately started while secondary crews performed a systematic search of the home.
The four pets in the house were found and taken outside unconscious. Despite resuscitation attempts, all four succumbed to their injuries.
The fire, declared under control at 3:11 a.m., was contained to the area of its origin.
Three adults and a child were displaced because of the blaze.
An Ottawa Fire Services investigator was sent to the scene to find out the cause of the fire.
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