A structure fire that despatched heavy plumes of black smoke hovering over West Kelowna, B.C., on Sunday afternoon was contained to a storage, limiting injury to close by properties.
Brent Watson, assistant fireplace chief, stated the extreme flames and warmth from the burning storage, which was crammed with tires, electronics and bikes, ignited an adjoining automobile, torched the perimeters of two journey trailers and a shed, and melted siding off of two neighboring properties.
The first residence additionally suffered injury to siding, yard furnishings and decorative bushes, however was saved.
The blaze broke out on Horizon Drive at roughly 3:00 p.m.
“We stretched the traces to the rear of the construction the place we discovered a storage on fireplace, absolutely concerned and a automobile inside as nicely. We had been in a position to knock it down fairly fast,” he instructed International Information.
The remnants of a storage after a fireplace tore via the West Kelowna construction on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021.
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Footage from the scene reveals a torched passenger automobile decreased to its shell and the burned, blackened body of a storage.
Watson stated the reason for the fireplace is underneath investigation, however it’s not believed to be suspicious.
“It’s probably electrical in nature,” he stated.
“There was quite a lot of gasoline again there so it could of thrown up quite a lot of black smoke,” he stated.
Watson famous the end result may have been a lot worse, given the placement in a densely populated space.
“In a growth like this the place the properties are fairly shut collectively, it’s crucial that we get right here rapidly, which we did immediately, and prevented any additional loss.”
Nobody was injured.
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