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Electrical Fire
Fire in a Kelowna apartment building contained to the laundry room
Aug 21, 2024 | 7:40 AM
Kelowna Fire Department were able to contain a fire within an apartment building Tuesday afternoon.
Crews responded to a high occupance alarm at a building in the 2000 block of Baron Road around 1 p.m. Aug. 20.
Firefighters discovered the fire was in the laundry room on a third floor of a building with 35 units and approximately 70 residents.
The fire was upgraded to a second alarm structure fire, but an initial fire attack crew was able to quickly contain and extinguish the blaze on their own.