After a fire burned through its interior earlier this year, a local furniture store has bounced back. Dufresne Furniture and Appliance store was hit by a large fire at the end of January. Crews were called around 2:30 a.m. to the 800 block of Nairn Avenue on Jan. 28. An aerial ladder was needed to fight the blaze, as it was unsafe for fire crews to go inside. The fire forced the closure of the store until further notice. Now, nine months later, the store has reopened. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Saturday morning to officially reopen the second-ever Dufresne store. Dufresne started in Kenora, Ont., in 1986. The Canadian company later expanded into Winnipeg, opening on Nairn in 1993. It continued to add in Manitoba, opening locations in Swan River, Selkirk, Portage la Prairie, and Brandon. In 2017, Dufresne went even further west, opening in Saskatchewan. In total, there are 15 locations throughout Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
