A five-year-old boy was rescued from a burning house by Moose Lake RCMP officers Jan. 29.
The officers saw the fire at a house across the street from the detachment around 4:25 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, just as a woman came into the detachment to tell them that a child was still in the house.
After attempting to enter but turning back due to thick smoke, officers began breaking windows to let some of the smoke out. They then went room to room, taking breaths at the open windows, until they found the boy on the floor, covered with a blanket. They picked him up and ran outside.
The boy was taken to hospital in Winnipeg, where he is in stable condition. The officers were treated at the community’s nursing station and released.
Four other residents of the home – two adults, and two other boys aged 5 and 2 – got out of the house and received only minor injuries.
Police say the cause of the fire, which destroyed the home, doesn’t appear to be criminal in nature.
