Photo: Carmen Weld

Fire crews took a break from handing out smoke alarms to residents Tuesday evening to fight a kitchen fire in a condo at the Lakeview Terrace development.

The West Kelowna Department, RCMP and ambulance arrived at the residence on Peak Point Drive to find heavy smoke pouring out of shattered windows at one of the units in a four-unit condo.

“The damage to the exterior of the building looks quite dramatic but the fortunate thing here, is it was contained to that one unit, it didn't spread to the rest of the building and we're working hard to preserve what we can in that unit,” said Fire Chief Jason Brolund.

The family in the condo made it out of the blaze unscathed, but were quite shaken up.

“The cause of the fire is still under investigation,” said Brolund. “I suspect it will be related to cooking in the kitchen.”

Fire crews had been going door-to-door before the call came in, handing out smoke alarms to those residents that didn't have one.

“We really hope that people use this as an opportunity to go check theirs.”

- With files from Carmen Weld