4 families displaced after Windsor apartment fire

Nova ScotiaAround 10 people are out of their homes after a Saturday afternoon fire at a four-unit apartment building in Windsor, N.S. The fire cause isn’t clear, but it’s not believed to be suspicious.Fire started Saturday afternoon and had to be extinguished twiceRichard Woodbury · CBC News · Posted: Oct 05, 2025 9:39 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoThe fire broke out Saturday around 2:30 p.m. AT at a four-unit apartment building on O’Brien Street in Windsor, N.S. (Tenisha Hazel)Around 10 people are out of their homes after a fire on Saturday afternoon at a four-unit apartment building in Windsor, N.S.Windsor Fire Department Chief Jamie Harvey said the fire broke out around 2:30 p.m. AT at an apartment building on O’Brien Street. He said no one was injured.Harvey said around 25 firefighters responded to the fire, including firefighters from nearby departments in Hantsport, Brooklyn and Summerville.Harvey said the cause isn’t clear, but the fire isn’t believed to suspicious. He said the fire broke out near a heat pump located outside of the building.”It could be the heat pump, it could be something in very close proximity,” said Harvey.Tenisha Hazel lives in the unit closest to the heat pump where the fire started. She wasn’t home at the time of the fire, but her 15-year-old stepdaughter was.Fire cause unclear”I guess it blew up. They heard two big bangs,” said Hazel.She said all of her family’s possessions — excluding her son’s untouched cowboy boots — were smoke damaged or charred.Hazel said around 10 people live in the apartment building.Harvey said the Red Cross and a local organization called the Posse Project provided assistance to displaced residents.The damage from the fire is shown from one of the units inside the building. (Tenisha Hazel)Hazel said she is staying at her parents’ place for now.While the fire was initially put out around 4 p.m., it reignited around 6 p.m., but was quickly put out for good, said Harvey.The damaged building is now boarded up. Harvey said there were concerns about the fire spreading to a nearby building, but it didn’t.ABOUT THE AUTHORRichard Woodbury is a journalist with CBC Nova Scotia’s digital team. He can be reached at richard.woodbury@cbc.ca.