Salmon Arm firefighters were called out early Friday morning to what was initially described as a brush fire in the 2500 block of 10th Ave. SE in the Hillcrest area.
With repeated 911 calls that began at 3.29 on March 18, dispatch upgraded the call to a structure fire, alerting fire hall 3 as well.
“Crews arrived to heavy fire conditions in a detached garage, camper and vehicle,” says fire chief Brad Shirley. “The fire was quickly knocked down, however the garage and camper sustained heavy damage and there was some fire damage to a vehicle, quad and adjacent deck and hot tub.”
Shirley says firefighters did a great job in preventing the fire from spreading to the house adjacent to garage.
Crews were on scene for approximately two hours. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
