Fire destroys RV, several tents at St. Paul homeless encampment

  • Source: KARE-TV NBC 11
  • Published: 11/30/2020 08:45 AM

Several tents and an RV were destroyed by a fire at a St. Paul homeless encampment Monday morning. According to the St. Paul Fire Department, the initial call firefighters responded to was about a garage fire on Gilbert Avenue just off Interstate 94 around 5 a.m. When crews arrived they found an RV and several tents on fire at a homeless encampment near I-94 and Cretin Avenue North. The fire was extinguished quickly, but the fire department says the RV and the tents were destroyed. A man in his 50s was taken to the hospital for evaluation. Fire officials don't know if he was in the RV or in a tent. The cause of the fire is under investigation.



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