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A FIRE ripped through a ~

' third-floor apartment’ on Kenney St. Nov. 27, causing . a, man and a woman to flee for. their lives out a sliding ‘door and onto a second-floor

A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 7, 2005 .

Investigators keep probing

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_. . Terrace firefighters found the entire third floor apart- ment.” blazing’ when they ‘arrived at the Manor Villa - Apartments on 2801 Kenney St. at 11 p.m. that day. _ Flames damaged the third © = floor, destroyed the roof, and the first. and second floors’. received water damage, said Terrace fire chief Peter Wee- _ ber,’ adding that fire, crews

worked on the blaze until 5 . .f

am. Nov.28.0 000 0” ‘©, Thornhill fire fighters as-

sisted, using a ladder truck.»

Twenty” ,residents lost ‘their homes as a result of the fire. Lieutenant Dean Prins - *. ° suffered’ a minor shoulder . injury while attempting to— gain access to an apartment. ~~, ~~. Luckily no residents were .. », hurt but if the 24-unit build-- , ‘ing had been fully occupied, ' ...it?s “guaranteed ‘that there ~ ‘would’ve been loss of life, - Weeber said. ©. o “You see it in the city all

“the: time. The: hotel fire’ in. ~

| - Richmond, they lost’a per- ~ son from fire just in.the lob- ‘by area there,” he said. _

- . From front wrk _ system —

.. ... effect; he says. He says the - . _ , ability for people. to make “=eomments is good because ‘while ‘most people think the © "building inspector makes the ’ code, “we're just watching a — -document.”, 2. ©

Ye building owners in- Miller: . |

‘stalled sprinklers “would: be pleased, but he _ says nobody voluntarily puts . them in buildings if they’re »

‘not required because they cost a lot of money and are.

~ Stricture has been built."

' The fire department can’. f

order a building owner to retrofit a structure if it was - built early in-the last cen- tury, is perceived to be a fire ' trap or if the building is. un-... _ dergoing changes related to > occupancy, For example, if a build- ing was to have retail space or offices: added under its _ apartments, the building in-

spector or department could - then. say it’s reasonable to: .

add. sprinklers because : of

tenants to the retail space below. - :

AS for how ‘many other

apartment buildings in the~ city are without sprinklers _ like the Manor Villa, Miller says: all the ones that look similar were probably built _ around the same. time and ~ «May not have sprinklers. . Miller warns the public to ~ be careful with fires in wood -stoves and thawing pipes with open flames, By using a propane torch to thaw frozen pipes, the user could cause flames to . ignite inside-a wall and set a - house on fire, he says.

Omission _ ~ A NOV. 27 story about.

changes implemented by the city to streamline the special

‘occasion liquor licence ap- . ‘plication process omitted a step. .

People wishing to apply for special occasion liquor licences must still first ob- tain a permit from the Li- quor Control and Licensing Board before applying for | approval from the city.” ‘

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) anor Villa apartment building on the corner of Agar and Kenney on the southside following a late night Nov. 27 fire. .

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‘The fire started on the building's third floor. There were no injuries.

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If someone had been liv-

"ing in the apartment beside -the one where the fire start-- ed, and hadn’t-heard the fire - ‘alarm’ and’ exited immedi-:- ‘ately, that person would’ve

been overcome by the fire and smoke, he said. « .. -

has seen in the last decade, Weeber believes. .

“That’s why it’s so im portant to have everything working,” he said.

Smoke detectors in the.” and. hallways |,

apartments 1k were working and the fire

alarm was still ringing when’

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left, Weeber said. *

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This blaze is one of the “more serious fires the city

‘Emergency social servic- _ es worker Sandy. Miller put ‘up the residents at the Bear ' Country Inn, the ‘ambulance —

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for’ the entire. night, Terrace

', RCMP cordoned off the area - “and. put security on every ,

corner, and Captain Dave Moulton of the Salvation Army showed up with hot coffee and food. ©. =

. “We knew we’d be there all night long. He showed up with a huge cube van with coffee, food and sandwiches and:fed not just us but every-

“ body, even people standing

there’ watching,” he said. ‘Despite rumours that a

meth lab or grow-op.caused >

the fire, Weeber said. fire- fighters didn’t find any evi-

dence of either at the scene.”

Terrace RCMP, the fire

department. and two mem- bers of CGI Insurance inves- » tigated and by the end of last - week had: determined that the blaze was not a result of

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! Weéeber said the fire ap- pears to have started in a

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He whether a cigarette started the ‘fire, but. did say there were a number of cigarette

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RCMP. talked to the

,apartment’s two occupants _ to gather more information’

for their investigation. Weeber - believes — the

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