1 person critical in aftermath of basement suite fire on Hunterhorn Drive

One person was taken to hospital in critical condition on Tuesday evening, after firefighters pulled them from a burning house in northeast Calgary.

It happened just before 6:30 p.m. in the basement suite of a home in the 100 block of Hunterhorn Drive N.E.

“Crews arrived and found a basement suite in a detached home ... both smoke and fire inside the basement suite,” said Dave Nelson, a district chief with the Calgary Fire Department.

“When crews arrived, they were told there was possibly a victim inside.”

Firefighters brought out one person.

EMS transported one adult to Foothills Hospital in critical condition.

Nobody else was hurt in the fire.

A fire investigator and Calgary police were working on the scene Tuesday night.