West Kelowna Fire Rescue has wrapped up its investigation into three suspicious fires on Wednesday morning, but couldn’t pinpoint how the fires ignited.
The first blaze was reported around 6:15 a.m. A vacant home on Grouse Road was on fire.
The flames were extinguished and no one was hurt.
The fire department said for safety reasons “crews were not able to safely enter many portions of the severely damaged structure,” so investigators couldn’t determine what sparked the house fire and the investigation was “inconclusive.”
Forty-five minutes after the first fire, around 7 a.m., fire crews were called to Scott Crescent to extinguish two small suspicious grass fires.
The fire investigation into the grass fires also did not turn up a specific cause.
“While they appear to be human caused, no materials indicating the cause of the fire were found,” fire chief Jason Brolund said in a press release.
The two fire sites are around a 15-minute drive from each other.
West Kelowna’s fire chief is commending the callers who quickly reported the blazes.
“This helps us respond rapidly and put fires out in their earliest stages.”
Brolund said members of the public with information about the fires should report it to police.