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Car fire doused in minutes after blaze erupts in garage

A car being worked on at a commercial garage on Lancaster Road caught fire. Ottawa firefighters had the blaze out in minutes. Jan. 2, 2023. (Scott Stilborn/Ottawa Fire Services) A car being worked on at a commercial garage on Lancaster Road caught fire. Ottawa firefighters had the blaze out in minutes. Jan. 2, 2023. (Scott Stilborn/Ottawa Fire Services)
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Ottawa firefighters doused a car fire in a commercial garage in a matter of minutes Monday evening.

Ottawa Fire Services says an employee of an auto shop on Lancaster Road called 911 at 6 p.m. to report the car they had been working on caught fire.

Firefighters arrived on scene at 6:05 p.m. and had the fire out by 6:09, OFS said in a news release. The fire did not spread to any other vehicles or the rest of the garage, though it did produce a lot of smoke. A neighbouring business was also affected, so firefighters used fans to push the smoke out of the building.

No one was hurt.

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