Two people will be displaced temporarily after a fire broke out in their north Nanaimo home.
Firefighters responded to a house in the 3100 block of Robin Hood Drive shortly after 8:30 a.m. Monday (June 13) after a fire broke out in the home’s living room.
Alan Millbank, Nanaimo Fire Rescue fire prevention officer, said the blaze was relatively minor and fire crews contained it to the living room.
The cause was wiring that shorted out over time and heated up a wooden floor joist, which ignited before a circuit breaker tripped.
“It was a floor joist in the crawl space under the living room near a baseboard heater,” Millbank said.
Why the wiring insulation in the home, which Millbank estimated was built sometime in the 1970s, failed in the first place is still under investigation and Millbank said a private contractor will likely be brought in to inspect the damage and provide a final determination to the cause.
The homeowners were home when the fire broke out, but no one was injured.
“The owners are insured but they’ll be displaced for a few days because of smoke damage,” Millbank said.
