A historical hangar at the former Edmonton municipal airport beside the NAIT main campus was on fire Monday night. Edmonton Fire Rescue Services said they received the call at 6:54 p.m. about the fire at Hangar 11, which had been designated a historic resource by city council. The interior of the structure was fully involved, so there was no interior attack as it was already unsafe for anyone to go into the building itself,” District 1 fire chief Jessica LaMer told reporters at the scene. “It’s a very huge fire load in a hangar like this. It’s obviously wood construction so with the high winds, it got the fire going really quickly.” …Hangar 11 was built by the U.S. military in 1942 and was believed to be the last building of its kind in western Canada.

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