Wednesday, May 8, was McHappy Day at McDonald’s everywhere except for one of the Nanaimo restaurants that was closed due to a late-night electrical fire.
Nanaimo Fire Rescue responded to the restaurant, located on Nicol Street near the Milton Street intersection, shortly before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Capt. Ennis Mond, Nanaimo Fire Rescue chief fire prevention officer, said the fire was in an electrical box inside the restaurant and crews were able to quickly knock out the fire.
“They used a dry chem extinguisher on it,” Mond said.
He said the fire caused smoke damage and there was contamination from the discharge of dry chemical extinguisher.
The restaurant remained closed until was inspected and cleared to reopen by Island Health, and is back open today, May 9.
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McHappy Day is the day of the year McDonald’s donates one dollar from the sale of every Big Mac, Happy Meal or hot McCafe beverages to The Children’s Foundation to send children to camp through the foundation’s Camps of Hope program.
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