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Kamloops Fire Rescue responded to a vehicle fire on Tuesday morning on West Seymour Street downtown. Crews were quick to extinguish the flames that destroyed the family van parked next to their home. There were no injuries reported and the flames were prevented from reaching the nearby home. Cause of the fire is under investigation.
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A Kamloops woman who lost her vehicle in a fire Tuesday morning says she is grateful the flames were extinguished before reaching her home. Emergency crews were called to a report of a house fire in the 300-block of Seymour Street West downtown just before 11 a.m. and arrived to find a van on fire. “I came back home from a quick trip out and went inside,”
Anne Goddard told KTW. “My roommate was out walking the dog. He comes inside and says the van’s on fire. I started to panic a bit.” Goddard said she called 911. The van was parked adjacent to Goddard’s garage. Firefighters doused the blaze before it could spread to the structure. “If we’d been inside, we might not have noticed it and that would have blown the house up,” Goddard said. “I just told the fire-
fighters I just put a half tank of gas in there.” Goddard said she is now stranded without her vehicle. “I don’t know what I’m going to do,” she said. “We’re both disabled and my friend gave me that van so I could get to appointments and around town. “We don’t have kids, so if we don’t have a Christmas, that’s OK. We’ll have a turkey or a ham and we’ll be OK.” The investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.
Kamloops remains largely bereft of snow so far this fall and temperatures have been relatively mild, but one of those two scenarios will change this week. The first cold snap of the season is on its way, with sunshine and shivering in the forecast. Environment Canada said Wednesday through Friday will bring in cold weather, with highs reaching -3 C to -8 C on all three days and overnight lows dipping to -10 C on Wednesday and -12 C on Thursday and Friday. Sun and clouds are expected for the weekend, with a high of 0 C and a low of -2 C forecast for Sunday. The November that just passed was warm, with all 30 days recording a daily high above 0 C. The warmest day was Nov. 2 (14.5 C), with the lowest temperature occurring on Nov. 8 (-6.9 C).
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