Suspicious fire causes significant damage to boarded-up Kelowna duplex

Kelowna Fire Department responded a suspicious fire at a boarded-up duplex last night.

The call to a fire in the 1800 block of Chandler Street came in at about 11 p.m. yesterday, Jan. 6.

When the arrived, firefighters spotted smoke coming from the soffits and around the windows of a boarded up, abandoned duplex.

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The fire crews were able to rip off the boards and discovered the fire in a bedroom that they were able to extinguish from outside the building.

When they went inside, crews found significant damage since the fire had burned through the floor, compromising the floor joists.

“At this time, we don’t have a cause for the fire and it is suspicious as the house was boarded up,” states a news release from the Kelowna Fire Department.

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