Tenants and their pets are displaced from their rental home after it caught fire this morning.

Nanaimo Fire Rescue responded at about 10:20 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2, upon receiving multiple calls about black smoke coming from a house at the corner of Boundary Avenue and Cardinal Way.

Stu Kenning, Nanaimo Fire Rescue assistant chief, said firefighters arrived on scene to find smoke and flame coming from the front of the structure.

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Kenning said nine people were living in the two suites of the house. No one was home when the fire broke out and no one was injured.

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It took firefighters almost an hour to knock down the fire and fully snuff it out.

The blaze appears to have started in the basement suite, Kenning said, and there was smoke damage to the upstairs of the home. The cause of the fire had not been determined and is under investigation. The assistant chief did not know if the tenants had insurance.

He said the two small dogs were rescued from the upstairs of the house where there was no fire.

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