FILE PHOTO - A water tender in Kelowna Fire Department's Enterprise Way fire station.
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Republished December 20, 2021 - 4:32 PM
Original Publication Date December 20, 2021 - 2:37 PM
A suspicious fire tore through a vacant house this afternoon in Kelowna, completely destroying it.
The Kelowna Fire Department responded at roughly 12:49 p.m. today, Dec. 20, to the house fire in the 1200 block of Leathhead Road. Arriving fire crews saw flames behind a boarded up window at the single storey home.
The house is now completely lost, deputy fire chief Scott Scott Cronquist said. Fire crews put out a blaze in the same house seven days earlier.
Cronquist didn’t know if there was anyone in the home at the time of the fire, as crews were waiting for the fire to be extinguished before it could be searched.
The cause of the suspicious fire is being investigated by both the fire department and RCMP.
Cronquist couldn’t comment on whether the fire might be linked to the previous one.
There were 16 firefighters, three engines, a command unit, a rescue unit and a ladder truck on scene.
— This story was updated at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 20, 2021 with more information from the fire department.
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