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TUESDAY December 3, 2013 • www.langleytimes.com NEWS Grinched by Would-Be Thieves
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Fire crews were called out to a blaze in a four-unit townhouse on Old Yale Road on Thursday night. One person, an elderly woman, died in the fire, which may have been caused by an electric space heater. One other person was airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital with serious njuries. All the building’s residents have been displaced by the fire.
One dead, three homeless after fire SPACE HEATER CITED AS LIKELY CAUSE OF BLAZE WHICH KILLED AN ELDERLY WOMAN B REN D A AN D E R SO N AND MO N I Q U E TA M M I N G A Ti m e s Re por t e rs
Materials left too close to a bedroom space heater is the suspected cause of a fire in a Langley four-plex Thursday evening that has left one woman dead and three people with nowhere to live this Christmas. The fire broke out in a rear bedroom of
an elderly woman’s home in the 23800 block of Old Yale Road. She died in the fire. A man in the neighbouring unit was airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital where he was listed in serious condition, said the Township fire department. On Monday, Langley RCMP believed he could be released from hospital on Tuesday. It’s unknown if he was burned in the fire. It also isn’t known whether he has
somewhere to live after being released from hospital. None of the three people who were displaced from the fire have any kind of insurance and were renting, confirmed Langley Township assistant fire chief Pat Walker. “From what we can see, it looks like the whole thing will have to be rebuilt. “These people can’t return home,” said Walker. It’s an awful situation, he said.
The Provincial Disaster Assistance provided one night’s stay in a hotel, but Walker doesn’t know where they are now and if they have places to stay. The fire started sometime before 6:30 p.m. By the time Township fire crews arrived at 6:37 p.m., a portion of the building was fully engulfed in flames.
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