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Fire destroys structure at homeless encampment

No one was injured after a fire at a homeless encampment Thursday morning.

Fire crews responded to a call on Garden Street in the city’s uptown.

A makeshift structure was destroyed, but a statement from the City of Saint John said no was in the encampment at the time of the fire.

Two trucks and a platoon chief responded to the call.

The encampment is located inside one of the new Red Zones implemented recently under the city’s Housing for All strategy.

  • Bryan Tait is an award-winning journalist based in New Brunswick. He’s a 2008 graduate of St. Thomas University’s journalism program, and a 2021 graduate of the University of New Brunswick’s law program. Contact Bryan at taitb@radioabl.ca.

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