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LAKE COUNTRY FIREFIGHTER Bob Smith surveys the damage from a fire that destroyed a home in Carr’s Landing overnight Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015.
▼ CARR’S LANDING Recognition for Rotarian Shannon Jorgenson wins Paul Harris Award for her efforts to help food bank ...........................
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Family forced to flee as fire destroys house KEVIN PARNELL A Lake Country family of four escaped serious injury but has lost their home and all of its contents after fire destroyed their house in Carr’s Landing last week. And it may have been a visiting dog that ended up accidentally starting the fire. Fire-fighters responded to the blaze on Tuesday night in a remote area of Lake Country and battled it initially with only a crew of four, two of whom entered the house to try and extinguish the blaze. But fuelled by extremely flammable building materials from the 1990’s era home, the blaze escaped control and gutted the structure.
The fire started in a downstairs bathroom where incense was burning. It has been ruled accidental after an investigation by Lake Country firefighters who are continuing to investigate along with insurance adjustors this week. Early indications are that there may have been food left in the downstairs bathroom where the incense was burning. Officials say it appears the dog may have found the food and inadvertently knocked over the incense in the bathroom, sparking the fire in some scattered materials in the bathroom. “At the end of the day no one was hurt, but we would have liked to have been able to save the home,” said Lake Country deputy fire chief Brent Penner, who said the remoteness of the area meant there were just four fire-fighters
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able to respond in the early moments of the blaze and they weren’t able to stop it. “We back this area up from our Winfield station but when we get something like this we really need two (water) lines to battle it,” he said. “It’s a tall task. Our Carr’s Landing station is not a fully-staffed firehall.” The blaze, on Maki Road in Lake Country, took place near the end of a long and winding road which took time for the second crew of firefighters to arrive on scene and supply the necessary back-up for more firefighters to join the fight. In all 16 firefighters ended up on scene along with three fire engines while another engine rolled from Oyama to Winfield in case of any other emergency calls Tuesday night.
Lake Country has three firehalls: The main hall in Winfield and halls in Carr’s Landing and Oyama. However the Carr’s Landing hall has been critically under-staffed for the past few years. Had more paid on-call firefighters been available to respond from Carr’s Landing the result may have been different. Early indications put the home and its contents valued at between $400,000 and $500,000. After seeing the smoke the residents initially attempted to douse the blaze with a fire extinguisher, although the fire had quickly escaped the bathroom and two adults and two children in the house were forced outside. The family was being housed in a hotel in Kelowna immediately after the fire with support from emergency social services.
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