The Moncton Fire Department dealt with three fires in less than seven hours overnight.
Platoon Chief Ron Arsenault says their first call was around 9:45 to a house on Drummond Avenue, where a mat in a hallway was on fire.
He says the resident managed to put out the fire themselves, and was treated for minor smoke inhalation, and the cause is still under investigation.
The second call was around two in the morning to an abandoned building on High Street where reports of light smoke had been made.
On arrival, firefighters found two people trying to start a fire in a makeshift tent in the building.
The log was removed, and Arsenault says the people would have been escorted out as well.
The final call was around 4:30 this morning on Tenth Street, where a couch had caught fire.
Arsenault says thick black smoke was pouring out of the living room windows when firefighters arrived.
They quickly extinguished the blaze, but not before the living room suffered significant smoke damage.
Nobody was injured in that fire, and the cause is still under investigation.
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Photo Credit: Drummond Avenue Fire/Wade Perry
