Emergency crews were called to the Thunder Bay District Jail at 285 MacDougall Street, for what was described as a “small fire”. A spokesperson for Thunder Bay Fire & Rescue tells us there was a mattress fire in one of the cell blocks over the noon hour.
The fire was contained in one area and no one was taken outside of the jail for treatment.
An official with the Regional Health Sciences Centre tells us a Code Orange Alert was issued at 12:30 this afternoon. That indicates there is a possible external disaster but after the expected patients did not arrive, the alert was cleared half an hour later.
Thunder Bay police say it is nothing they were involved with.
