Balcony fire at Kelowna’s Verve condo complex quickly doused by firefighters

A fire on a fourth-floor balcony of a building in the Verve condo complex was quickly doused by crews from the Kelowna Fire Department on Sunday afternoon.

Black smoke was seen rising from a building, on Yates Road off Glenmore Road, on the southeast side of the complex.

When firefighters arrived at around 4:30 p.m., they quickly assembled to extinguish the blaze.

Crews went inside the condo building to ensure flames were not trapped within the inside walls.

No one was injured in the fire.

An external air conditioning unit on the deck was covered with numerous items, which lead to the fire, according to the fire department.