Fire crews had to get up to the roof to knock down a fire at 739 Kildare Road.
They were called to the 3-story duplex just before 3 p.m. to find the building fully involved.
Fire crews working on fully involved duplex at 739 Kildare Rd. #cklw pic.twitter.com/LP0X70ieCv
— Peter Langille (@PLangille800) May 23, 2018
Kim Murphy and a friend were driving through the neighborhood and saw the smoke and firetrucks.
She says she knew immediately whose house it was.
"We saw the fire trucks, saw the smoke, we got to the corner here and I'm looking down and like 'Oh My God my aunt lives down here' It looked like the fire trucks were in front so we got out and walked and that's how I realized Oh My God it's my aunt's, so I called her"
Glenn Temple of Little Glenn's Moving happened to be in the neighborhood at the time.
"I passed the alley on fire, called 9-1-1, pulled around, I knocked on the door and there's a lady in a wheelchair, sitill in her bed, couldn't get out. So me and another gentleman went picked her up brought her out in front of the house, laid her on the ground and then they brought the chair out for her to get into"
Neighbor Tammy Novis' daughter Sydney Gallerno was the one rescued from their house by Glenn Temple.
Tammy Novis and her daughter Sydney Gallerno, who was rescued from the home next to the fire house, Kildare Road, May 23, 2018 (by AM800's Peter Langille)
"I said she's in a wheelchair, I've got to get her into her wheelchair. They said we'll just get her. They came in, climbed in her bed with her and grabbed her and carried her out the back door, then we went back for the wheelchair"
Everyone inside the home got out safely, including pets.
Fire crews have declared the fire under control.