A large fire at an Armstrong Spallumcheen mobile home park destroyed one home.
The blaze broke out shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Eagle Rock Mobile Home and RV Park, on Hutley Road, across Highway 97A from Tolko.
No one was injured by the fire, which remains under investigation.
“It was gone before we got there, they go up pretty quick,” Armstrong Fire Chief Ian Cummings said.
Firefighters were on scene within a minute and a half, as they were already at the fire hall wrapping up Tuesday night’s fire practice.
“We did have some challenges,” Cummings said, noting propane and ammunition on-site was exploding.
But crews managed to contain the blaze to the individual trailer, minimizing damage to nearby trailers.
Cummings said there didn’t appear to be anything suspicious about the blaze, but he isn’t ruling anything out until the investigation is complete.
Earlier Tuesday, two people were killed in an apartment fire in Penticton.
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A structure fire was reported in Eagle Rock Mobile Home Park in Armstrong Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (Contributed)
An Armstrong fire investigator checks out the damage to a large travel trailer that was destroyed by fire that broke out in the Eagle Rock Mobile Home and RV Park the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 27 in Spallumcheen. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)
