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Your WFPS battled 5 fires while you slept. One's still active.

Winnipeg, a busy morning for our WFPS

Winterpeg. We built a city in the coldest place anyone has any business building a city — and it is genuinely wonderful. Good morning.

It's been a busy night and early morning for our Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service, hey? According to real-time incident monitoring data, the WFPS has responded to multiple structure fires since 3:00 AM on Thursday, May 7th, 2026. The most pressing is an active structure fire in the Spence neighbourhood, incident 2026068818, reported at 4:40:56 AM, which is still active as of 12:59 PM today.

### Fire Crews Battling Active Incident

This active fire in Spence, located in the Daniel McIntyre ward, has seen a significant deployment of units including D3, D74, E101, E102, E103, E104, E17, E2, E3, E5, E6, L11, PCFRO, R4, R5, and S5. That’s a lot of folks on the ground, hey. This follows three other resolved structure fires in Spence and a fifth in West Broadway earlier this morning.

* Spence (incident 2026068819), reported at 4:41:19 AM, resolved by 4:45:09 AM. * Spence (incident 2026068820), reported at 4:40:07 AM, resolved by 4:45:08 AM. * West Broadway (incident 2026068832), reported at 5:45:35 AM, resolved by 5:56:24 AM. * Leila North (incident 2026068804), reported at 3:10:07 AM, resolved by 4:09:47 AM.

It's a reminder of the constant work our WFPS does, often when the rest of the city is still sleeping. We'll be watching for updates from the WFPS on the active situation in Spence and the other incidents.

Rosie Fontaine. MiTL Sports Desk.

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