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UPDATE: 4 adults escape after car goes up in flames in garage, spreads to house in Chilliwack

Emergency Support Services called in following fire on Alpine Crescent in Promontory
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The Chilliwack Fire Department was called to a car fire on Alpine Crescent in Promontory on Saturday, April 15, 2023. (Katlyn Carter/ Promontory Community Facebook page)

Four adults have been displaced after a car that caught fire in a garage at a Chilliwack home spread to the house on Saturday afternoon.

The call came in around 4:15 p.m. on April 15 for reports of a car on fire in the garage of a two-storey house on Alpine Crescent in Promontory Heights.

When crews arrived on scene they found smoke and flames coming from garage and reported that it was a “working fire.”

The fire did spread to the house.

“Firefighters quickly knocked the fire down preventing it from extending further into the house,” fire chief Ian Josephson stated in a press release later that same day.

The majority of the fire, smoke and water damage was limited to the garage, vehicle and main floor living area of the house with minor smoke damage on the second floor.

Four adults managed to safely evacuate once they discovered the fire. Emergency Support Services (ESS) personnel provided the homeowners with basic support as their home is not habitable.

The fire originated in the vehicle’s engine compartment and is considered accidental.

There were no civilian or firefighter injuries.


 

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