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Cause of North Okanagan house fire still under investigation

Mom rescued sleeping baby from Thursday91裸聊视频檚 blaze
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Firefighters converge at a house fire on Commonage Place Thursday afternoon. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)

Update: Friday, 9:45 a.m.

The cause of the Thursday afternoon house fire at Commonage Place on Mission Hill is not yet known. Vernon Fire Rescue Services began its investigation Friday morning, but deputy fire chief Scott Hemstad says it won91裸聊视频檛 be completed until sometime next week.

Hemstad has begun doing interviews with firefighters who attended the blaze.

91裸聊视频淭hen I need to speak with property owners and check any witnesses91裸聊视频 statements, and then go through the scene,91裸聊视频 he said.

More updates will follow as further information comes to light.

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A mother91裸聊视频檚 instinct kicked in immediately as a Vernon mom rescued her one-year-old son from their burning home Thursday afternoon.

The family91裸聊视频檚 Commonage Place home on Mission Hill went up in flames while the youngest was sleeping, shortly after 2 p.m. The family of five, including three boys, have been renters at the home for eight years.

91裸聊视频淚 feel like I should buy a lottery ticket,91裸聊视频 said the father, who did not want to give his name, holding his youngest in his arms after arriving from work. 91裸聊视频淢y wife and youngest were able to get out. One son is in Vancouver for the week, and he91裸聊视频檚 usually sleeping in that room (pointing to upstairs window) about this time of day, and my other son was with me.91裸聊视频

The man said his wife had also thrown the family cat outside, then ran back into the house to retrieve family photos, confirmed by eyewitness Catherine Pynappels of Kelowna, who called 911 when she saw black smoke billowing into the air as she arrived in Vernon to visit her mom.

91裸聊视频淚 saw the flames driving up to the back of the house. It looked like a big cedar at first but then you could see the flames went from the cedar to the back of the house,91裸聊视频 said Pynappels.

91裸聊视频淚 stopped a gentleman a couple of houses over, he was doing his siding, and let him know there was a house on fire a couple over.

91裸聊视频淚 pulled up to the house. The lady had her baby in her arms and she ran back into the house. I went into the house and told her she had to get out.

91裸聊视频淪he was frantically looking for her pictures or her hard drive. I grabbed her and said, 91裸聊视频榶ou have to get out.91裸聊视频91裸聊视频

Vernon Fire Rescue Services Chief David Lind, who helped battle the blaze himself, said the cat was found alive and taken to a vet for a check-up.

It is believed the fire started at the back of the house, spread to some bushes and then the home.

Lind said the original call came in to the station as a grass fire.

91裸聊视频淐rews responded and when they got there, they saw flames coming out of the roof of a house,91裸聊视频 said Lind, who was still on-scene nearly three hours after the original call. 91裸聊视频淭he crews were able to isolate the fire to the home on fire. They did a remarkable job of preventing the fire from spreading to a neighbouring house. I91裸聊视频檓 very impressed with my team.91裸聊视频

The neighbouring home to the north did suffer slight damage as some of the home91裸聊视频檚 siding melted from the heat. A car was parked in the driveway and one firefighter could be seen pounding on the front door to alert anyone in the home of the fire next door. Nobody answered. It was later determined the homeowners were away at the time.

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The father of the now-displaced family said they had plenty of relatives in the area that would help look after them as things get sorted out.

Asked if he had insurance, he said he thinks the owner has insurance but he and his family did not have renter91裸聊视频檚 insurance.

91裸聊视频淲e didn91裸聊视频檛 have anything of value that91裸聊视频檚 not replaceable,91裸聊视频 he said. 91裸聊视频淔acebook buy and sell, you get everything in there for a small price.91裸聊视频

Investigators will be back at the home Friday to try and determine a cause of the fire.



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