A house fire occurred at about 11:00 a.m. today on 2nd Street NW in Portage la Prairie. Rod Kazuk called the fire department to report the blaze, and explains what happened.

"I was coming from my building on First Street and I could smell something burning. And I know that place caught on fire once before already, started by kids or something. I went up there and I smelled even more smoke, and sure enough there's a fire."

Rod Kazuk called the fire report in

Pat Brown's one of the neighbours and says she walked out of her house for a cigarette and saw the fire trucks, and asked, "Again?', noting it's the second time the house caught fire in the last few months.

Neighbours report nobody was home.

Damage is estimated at about $100,000.00.  The Office of the Fire Commissioner is investigating. We'll have more information as it becomes available.