One dead in Saturday night apartment blaze on Broadway

One person is dead following a Saturday night fire in a Saskatoon apartment complex.

Fire crews were called to the apartment building on the south end of Broadway Ave. shortly after 7 p.m.

Smoke was billowing out of the three-storey building’s ground floor. When fire crews arrived, they found a fire in one suite.

There, they also found a body. They have not yet been able to identify the victim.

They managed to put out the blaze by around 7:40 p.m. Around $120,000 worth of smoke and fire damage was done to the apartment.

Investigators believe the blaze was an accident.