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A major fire in downtown Kingston engulfed a student housing building under construction Tuesday A massive fire in Kingston, Ont., engulfed a five-storey wood building under construction on Tuesday, prompting the dramatic helicopter rescue of a worker trapped on a construction crane. Dozens of stunned bystanders watched the rescue of the worker, who suffered only minor burns. He became trapped on the crane when the blaze broke out at the construction site just after 2:15 p.m. John Ashie was working at his family's car dealership down the street when his father asked him about the black smoke that was rising above the neighbourhood. The 22-year-old stepped onto the street just in time to see bright orange flames burst through the roof of the apartment complex under construction, which took up at least one city block. "Thirty seconds went by and then the whole top was up in flames," Ashie told the Canadian Press. "It seemed kind of out of control at that point, by the time the first fire truck got there."