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Fire consumes home

UPDATE: 9:15 a.m.

The Lake Country fire department says no one was hurt in a destructive early-morning house fire.

Fire chief Steve Windsor says crews got the call at 1:19 a.m. of a fully-involved house fire on Maddock Avenue in Okanagan Centre Wednesday morning. 

“Multiple calls came in,” says Windsor. “There was a resident home at the time, but he had managed to get out by himself.”

When crews arrived on scene they found a two-storey older home fully engulfed.

“We arrived with three engines and a couple command vehicles. It required a lot of water to put the fire out,” says Windsor.

“It is an older home, so there was a lot of fuel loaded into the house itself.”

He says there were no injuries to firefighters or the resident.

“Crews just cleared the scene and will start the investigation this morning, but it appears accidental at this point.”

The structure is still standing, but Windsor says it was badly damaged and is likely a tear down.

He says a fifth-wheel on the property and two ATVs were also damaged in the fire.


ORIGINAL: 6:10 a.m.

A large fire consumed a home in Lake Country overnight.

The late-night fire razed a home on Maddock Avenue in Okanagan Centre.

Details are few at the moment, but the fire apparently started some time after midnight. Castanet received news tips from residents of the area about 2 a.m.

Adam Stoddard told Castanet in an email that the blaze had already consumed a large pine when his family fled their home, two doors down, out of caution.

Stoddard called 911, but firefighters were already on scene.

Castanet will provide more information as it becomes available.



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