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10 displaced after fire on Ogilvie Road, 1 of 4 fires in Ottawa Tuesday

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Ten people are homeless after a fire in a home in Beacon Hill Tuesday morning, one of four fires Ottawa firefighters dealt with on a cold January day.

Firefighters were called to a home in the 2000-block of Ogilvie Road at 11:53 a.m. reporting heavy black smoke and flames coming from a townhouse.

The first and second floors were both damaged by the fire. Firefighters had to pull the ceilings from in the top floor of both units to extinguish the flames that had spread throughout the attics.

It took more than two hours to get the blaze under control. What caused the fire is under investigation.

No one was reported hurt.

Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney said on social media that one townhouse unit was lost in the fire and community members are helping the displaced residents find accommodations.

Firefighters in Ottawa also responded to a barn fire that killed 30 chickens on Walter Bradley Road in the rural west end, an apartment fire in a high-rise on St. Laurent Boulevard, and a garage fire in the South Keys area that sent two people to hospital.

On Monday, five people were displaced by a fire in the east end.

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