There was a bit of a close call for two Surrey residents and firefighters in a townhouse blaze at 102-A Avenue and 133rd Street late Wednesday night.
LISTEN: Surrey Fire acting Battalion Chief Spiro Pegios
Acting Battalion Chief Spiro Pegios says they were called out at 10 p.m.
Pegios says the two occupants were lucky.
“They did have smoke alarms but they were disconnected, however the occupant was awake, luckily at this time was able to get out at a timely fashion and warn his neighbours as well.”
“We like to keep stressing the importance of having working smoke alarms in the house.”
But Pegios says that wasn’t the only fortunate aspect to the situation.
“When they made their interior attack, we were informed by the owner, the occupant of that unit, that he had quite a few rounds of ammunition in the upstairs area,” he says. “He’s a gun collector. He warned us as he was concerned for our crews, as we are as well. And we pulled our crews out and formulated a bit of a different plan to extinguish the fire completely.”
Pegios says the fire started in the kitchen.