Fire crews pull person from burning home
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Emergency crews pulled a person from a burning home in Brandon’s east end on Tuesday morning.
Firefighters were dispatched to a single-storey house at 436 Percy St. at about 10:19 a.m., and crews arrived within five to six minutes, Brandon Fire and Emergency Services Chief Terry Parlow said.
“Our team did locate an individual and got them out of the building, and then transported them to hospital, and that is where they are right now,” he later told the Sun. “That’s all I can say about that now.”
A firefighter removes a ladder from the back of a home on Percy Street in Brandon’s east end after emergency crews responded to a fire at the home on Tuesday morning. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Parlow did not provide the person’s age or condition, saying the individual was receiving care at the Brandon Regional Health Centre and that further information would have to come from the family or hospital.
According to neighbours, a man in his 60s was the only occupant of the home.
Firefighters launched the attack by entering the home through the front and back before locating the individual inside.
“There’s significant smoke and water damage, and some fire damage as well,” Parlow said around 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
“It’s still under investigation. At this time, we haven’t obviously had any cause, and we don’t have any estimate of the damage yet. Crews are still on scene, just putting out some smaller spot fires right now.”
Fire Capt. Steve Sherb, who was at the scene, said crews observed fire and smoke coming from the back of the house when they arrived.
“The fire was brought under control at roughly noon,” Sherb told the Sun.
Fire officials had not released additional information about the circumstances surrounding the fire as of late Tuesday afternoon.
The property has a history that goes back more than a century.
In the First World War era, the home was associated with the Rodgerson family, including Robert Honderson Rodgerson and Jane Ann Rodgerson, according to Veterans Affairs Canada.
Their son, George Dawson Rodgerson, served with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles and was killed in action on Oct. 1, 1916, at age 21. Military records identify Rodgerson as a Brandon man and record that he is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion archives say.
The record also indicate members of the Rodgerson family remained connected to the property into the 1920s and that it later became associated with the Stimson family.
By the late 1940s and through the 1950s, Percy (George) Stimson and his wife, Astrid, were associated with the home, according to the archives. Their daughter, Lynda Darlin Stimson, grew up in Brandon and graduated from Neelin High School in 1963. She later married Bruce Baker in 1966.
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