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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
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n A giant incense burner in the central courtyard at Lingyen Mountain Temple is tended to by volunteer Hui Ann during the temple’s fundraiser in aid of its expansion on No. 5 Road. Photo by Gord Goble/Special to the News n More photos in The Pulse on page 24 and online at Richmond-News.com.
Family mourns fatal fire Elderly resident dies in early morning blaze at detached home PHILIPRAPHAEL
Staff Reporter
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Richmond family is mourning the loss of one of its elderly members, who died in a house fire in the early hours of Sunday. At around 12:40 a.m., firefighters were called to a residence in the 5700-block of Riverdale Drive in the Thompson area of north Richmond, where a bedroom in the home was engulfed in flames. The blaze was put out before it spread to the rest of the house, but the room’s occupant died. A neighbour, two doors down from the house, said the man, who was in his 70s, was a relative. The woman, who declined to give her name, told the Richmond News the victim was her uncle and that the See Lamp page 7
n RCMP and Richmond Fire-Rescue at the scene of Sunday morning’s fatal house fire in the Thompson neighbourhood. Photo by Philip Raphael/Richmond News
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