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West Kelowna fire deemed suspicious

West Kelowna fire deemed suspicious | iNFOnews.ca
Fire gutted this abandoned building overnight in West Kelowna. Submitted/West Kelowna Fire Rescue

A fire tore through an abandoned building in the 2700 block of Shannon Lake Road in West Kelowna overnight.

“The first in crew found advanced fire conditions and downed power lines upon arrival and deemed it a defensive fire operation,” states a West Kelowna Fire Rescue news release. “It was determined that this was an abandoned structure with no one living there at this time.”

The release didn’t say what time firefighters arrived at the blaze.

The fire is deemed suspicious so the RCMP will be investigating.

No word yet on the cause of the fire.

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Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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