{"id":118310,"date":"2025-08-04T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118310\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:47:10","slug":"no-quick-return-for-duckworth-street-condo-residents-following-weekend-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118310\/","title":{"rendered":"No Quick Return for Duckworth Street Condo Residents Following Weekend Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cavendish-square-fire-3.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"No Quick Return for Duckworth Street Condo Residents Following Weekend Fire\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It may be a while before residents of a high-rise red brick condo in the east end of downtown St. John\u2019s can return to their homes following a dramatic rescue in the overnight\u00a0hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>People in the area near the Sheraton heard loud booms and saw black smoke coming from the lower level of the condo building, which is on Duckworth Street.<\/p>\n<p>The RNC, St. John\u2019s Regional Fire Department and ambulance crews sprang into action to get the people out of the smoke-filled building.<\/p>\n<p>Platoon Commander Paul Chaytor says one firefighter was injured and taken to the hospital.<a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/900\/files\/2025\/08\/cavendish-square-fire-2.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-275986 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cavendish-square-fire-2-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a>He says they went door-to-door and made a full sweep of all rooms, but the more difficult in this case was that people were on their balconies, so they had to bring in the ladder trucks to rescue them.<\/p>\n<p>Bella Randazzo, who was at Bannerman Brewery across the road when things all broke loose, helping set up for\u00a0a friend\u2019s wedding reception yesterday, was happy to see everyone get out okay.<\/p>\n<p>She says firefighters asked them to move away from the area, but they were very accommodating and worked really hard to ensure everyone\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; It may be a while before residents of a high-rise red brick condo in the east end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-118310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114970810393128028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}