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Everything lost in apartment blaze Man, 23, hopes his missing cat will turn up
Vikki HOPES Abbotsford News
Darryl Parsons set up his deep fryer to make a latenight meal in his second-storey apartment, and headed up to the third floor to check if his buddy was hungry. While Parsons was talking to his friend, the building’s
fire alarms went off. Parsons Parsons raced into the apartdashed back down to his suite, ment, frantically trying to loand saw smoke streaming cate his two pets, but the through the door. thick black smoke and VIDLEIONE searing heat were too The 23-year-old’s main ON ws.com much. His only escape thought was rescuing his abbyne two beloved cats – Misty, was off the balcony. a grey seven-year-old feParsons jumped to safety, male, and Sylvester, a six-year- leaving everything behind. He old black-and-white male. wasn’t even wearing shoes.
His suite in the Abbotsford Place apartment complex – located at the corner of George Ferguson Way and Gladwin Road – was destroyed. The fire took place at about 11:30 p.m. on Friday. Crews arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the unit, which Continued on A4
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KEVIN MACDONALD Abbotsford News
A cooking-oil fire destroyed one apartment and damaged others in a building at 32850 George Ferguson Way at about 11:30 p.m. last Friday night.
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