Lake Country house fire sparks arrest

LAKE COUNTRY – RCMP have a man in custody following a house fire in Lake Country this morning.

Fire crews, police and an ambulance were dispatched to the blaze at 3109 Beaver Lake Road, near Highway 97 at about 10:11 a.m., Nov. 2.

Dean Bose of Oyama says he saw a man in his 50s or 60s running across Beaver Lake Road towards the house and a woman standing on the front lawn screaming for someone to call the police.

He says the woman's hand was bleeding and she told him her ex-husband was trying to light the house on fire.

According to Bose, a second bystander held the ex-husband on the ground while Bose helped the injured woman.

"She said something about a divorce or they were separating… and that he tried to drag her back into the house."

Bose says he saw police put the man into a cruiser and take him away.

There was no visible damage to the exterior of the house.

RCMP are investigating.

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— This story was updated at 11:21 a.m., Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 with information from an eyewitness.