Posts Tagged “Fire”


Kitimat Fire and Rescue on scene at a fire on Lillooet St. in Kitimat, July 14, 2014. (Robin Rowland)
A fire that began in the kitchen destroyed a house on Lillooet Street in Kitimat on the afternoon of July 14, 2014. Everyone who was in the house at the time got out safely.

Kitimat Fire and Rescue Ladder 11 blasts the burning house with a high pressure hose. (Robin Rowland)
Update: There is now a fundraising campaign to help the family
On the sunny afternoon of Sunday, October 24, 2010, I just happened to look out my front window when suddenly white smoke began to appear in the valley below in the Kildala neighborhood of Kitimat, smoke which quickly added dark gray and spread out horizontally over a wide area of the neighborhood.
There had been an explosion and fire in a family home on Stikine St.. Thankfully there were no injuries.
A few shots of the Kitimat firefighters at work battling the house fire.
A firefighter cools down hotspots after much of the house was destroyed by the fire.
A firefighter emerges from the smoke of the burning house.
Firefighters tackle the stubborn fire in the attic.
Update:Nov. 3, 2010. Local media report police now say fire is “suspicious.”