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Man runs into flames looking for his girlfriend in Elgin County blaze


 
WEST LORNE, ONT.
A tenant says he went into the flames looking for his girlfriend during a Wednesday morning apartment fire in downtown West Lorne.
Cornelius Deyle tells CTV News he was outside his Graham Road unit around 7 a.m. when his landlord arrived to say alarms were sounding in his unit.
Deyle says he followed his landlord upstairs to alert his girlfriend.
“There was thick black smoke; I couldn’t see much. And did my best to navigate through the apartment unable to see or breathe. I tried to find my girlfriend.”
Cornelius Deyle, still covered in soot, speaks after a fire in West Lorne, Ont. on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (Sean Irvine / CTV News)

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