Two Gatineau residences damaged by blazes

A pair of presumably avoidable blazes kept Gatineau firefighters on the go on Monday.
The first, sparked by a dish left unsupervised on the stove, caused at estimated $15,000 damage to a three-story home on rue du Blizzard, just north of Pink Road, in the Plateau neighbourhood just before noon hour. Two people were forced to evacuate and were placed in the care of the Red Cross.
Gatineau fire services said in a media release that 73 per cent of all blazes in the city were in residences. Of that