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On Tuesday, just minutes after cleaning himself up from responding to a spontaneous combustion fire at Slegg Lumber, Langford Fire Inspector Chris Aubrey’s phone buzzed, followed quickly by station-wide sirens. A grass fire had sparked at the corner of Jacklin and Jenkins roads, keeping Langford Fire Rescue busy after an already swamped long weekend. “It’s been a busy 48 to 72 hours,” Aubrey said. Last Saturday, 10 firefighters hiked 20 minutes into Goldstream Provincial Park with portable extinguishers and water packs to put out an unattended campfire, a job that saw the department call the Ministry of Forests for aid. With no water immediately nearby, it could have been a very dangerous situation if the winds had picked up, Aubrey said. On B.C. Day evening Monday, the fire department received calls from residents on Crystalview Drive reporting smoke behind their homes. The calls were soon echoed by residents on Atkins Road as the
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Langford firefighters hose down hot spots on a grass fire next to Belmont secondary at Jenkins Road that sent smoke wafting through Langford on Tuesday afternoon. smoke spread and the fire kept growing. “From the time we got the call to when we actually got water on it, it had grown from 10 or 15 (feet) by 50 feet to 150 by 500 feet,” said Aubrey. “It was 10 times the size in a matter of minutes.”
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There was evidence in the area that led the department to believe it was another human-caused fire. “Whether it was intentional or accidental, we don’t know yet,” he said, adding it took more than two dozen firefighters to contain the Crystalview blaze. “That’s the
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