Huge fire wrecks Canmore district

On April 24th at 1AM startled Stewart Creek neighbors were awakened by the glow and crackling of an inferno. This is what they witnessed. The early-morning fire caused millions of dollars worth of damage, destroying at least three luxury condo buildings in Canmore, Alberta on Saturday.

"It's probably the highest dollar-loss fire in Canmore (history)," said assistant fire chief Mike Bergstrom.

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• canmore
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• inferno
• alberta

[raywilliamjohnsonz]

@f0u lawl its funny because its 2012 and i live in that area

[f0u]

Oh god, were those at three sisters, Timberline Lodges? If so, I BUILT IT IN 2007

[MrMoocowfilms]

@jaboideau same

[jaboideau]

my school is right up the street =P

[TheExtremePyromaniac]

AWESOME

[angerycraig]

Ah yes...The canmore basement savers arrive just in time

[1987buick1987]

ya 34mil

[wedominick]

Thats sad to see, I used to work across the street from those condo's and saw them built from the ground up...

[blayze04]

A lot of people LOST money from the buildings being burnt. No i am not talking about the 'rich calgarians' as most of the units had not even been sold yet...

I doubt anyone working on the project would start the fire. Most of them never even got paid for the work that they did, and most likely never will.

[fooruggler]

@outdoorlife25 I knew a guy that had pre-purchased a condo in there and months before the fire and himself along with other people locked into purchases were really scared because of major financial losses they were forseeing. I heard the night of the fire the only person in any of the buildings that burned was a guy working on the project, go figure. It seems like insurance fraud. I wonder if someone got paid off! I'm pretty sure some people saved a lot of money with these buildings burning.