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Kitchen fire evacuates Kelowna apartment building

KELOWNA – A kitchen fire, which started in the oven, forced the evacuation of an apartment building in downtown Kelowna yesterday afternoon. Kelowna Fire Department platoon Capt. Steve Wallick says crews were called to the building 18-unit building in the 700-block of Bernard Avenue, just east of Richter Street, at about 4:25 p.m., Oct. 11,...

Fire at Vernon apartment building quickly doused

VERNON – If a passerby hadn’t noticed smoke from a small fire burning on the outside wall of a Vernon apartment building Saturday afternoon, it could have turned out much worse. Vernon Fire Rescue crews were called to the Sundance Suites at 2902 43 Ave. near MacDonald Park around 4:04 p.m., April 11, to a...