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Two fires under investigation in Portage
Authorities are investigating two fires after a busy Wednesday for Portage la Prairie firefighters. Crews were reportedly dispatched to multiple downed hydro lines in the city's west end when they received a call regarding an apartment fire in the same area around 10:25 p.m. on July 24. They were able to contain the blaze which had taken place in the apartment's kitchen area. While putting out the apartment fire, additional crews responded to a report of a structure fire in Dakota Tipi First Nation, where a travel trailer was fully engulfed. The fire was extinguished, but the trailer was totally lost. Both the apartment fire and trailer fire remain under investigation.