Monday night’s blaze at an East Kildonan condo building under construction is highlighting some of the risks involved with construction sites.

“Certainly any fire on a construction site is a pretty scary event and yesterday’s was absolutely spectacular,” Winnipeg Construction Association president Ron Hambley told Global News.

“To see something that involved that quickly was really quite something.”

No one was injured in the incident and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

“We’re very relieved that nobody actually got injured and nobody was hurt or killed in the fire,” Constriction Safety Association of Manitoba executive director Sean Scott said.

Winnipeg has seen similar construction site fires in recent years, including one on Pembina Highway near the University of Manitoba in 2019, and another at a Transcona condo building in 2020.

While arson was involved in one of those fires, industry experts say there are many factors that can put construction sites an an elevated level of risk, especially for wood-framed structures.

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