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JULY 17, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 57
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Woman dies of injuries sustained in blaze FIONA FRANCE LIVED IN A TRAILER IN WESTSYDE MOBILE HOME PARK; TWO MALE YOUTHS FOUND NEARBY WERE ARRESTED AND QUESTIONED, THEN RELEASED AS INVESTIGATION CONTINUES MICHAEL POTESTIO
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A woman rescued from her burning mobile home on Monday morning has died. Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie said the woman — identified by friends as Fiona France — succumbed to her injuries after being taken to Royal Inland Hospital. The fire, deemed by investigators to be suspicious, occurred at about 3:30 a.m. in trailer No. 3 in the Westsyde Mobile Home Park at 811 Grant Rd. The blaze also damaged an adjacent mobile home, from which a family escaped unscathed. Investigators with If arson is found to Kamloops Fire Rescue have caused the fire, and the RCMP, with this case would become the help of the RCMP’s a homicide investigaforensic investigation tion, Shelkie said. section, continued to “It is unknown how examine the scene on long this investigation Tuesday. will be or when the A cause of the fire results of the investigahas not yet been detertion will be available,” 1 2017-04-10 1:36:47 PM mined. MIK.Soc.Med.Kilt.Cash.FRONT.$10.pdf Shelkie said, noting
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A fire that started in trailer No. 3 (right side of photo) spread to trailer No. 4 in the Westsyde Mobile Home Park early Monday morning. Fiona France, a woman in her 60s (above), was pulled from the flames and rushed to Royal Inland Hospital, where she later died. MICHAEL POTESTIO/KTW
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No. 3 appears to be completely gutted, with its porch charred. A portion of the south-facing wall across from trailer No. 4 is gone and one side of trailer No. 4 sustained fire damage. Mike Dunn, who lives across from trailer No. 3, said he awoke in the middle of the night to screams outside and a loud explosion he thought was a propane tank exploding.
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