Seniors' home evacuated as firefighters battle four-alarm blaze

More than 70 seniors were forced to flee from their residence early Sunday morning after a four-alarm fire broke out in the garage of The Meridian retirement home in Centrepointe.
Paramedics said they triaged 75 residents, who were taken to the nearby Ben Franklin Place, where the city’s office of emergency management established an information centre for residents and their families.
Ottawa Fire on scene of a 4-Alarm fire at 3 Meridian Place. Fire is in the roof and attic area of a large