Cougar Ridge residents offer donations, support after flames destroy three homes

Residents of the southwest Calgary community of Cougar Ridge are offering donations and support to the victims of a Wednesday afternoon fire that burned three homes to the ground. Emergency crews arrived around 2 p.m., following calls to 911 about a house fire on the 100 block of Cougartown Close S.W. Firefighters arrived to discover one house fully engulfed, with fire spreading to the house next door, prompting a second alarm for additional resources. Four people escaped the homes without injur