There were no injuries after a mayday call from Kamloops firefighters who were responding to a house fire on Carson Crescent yesterday afternoon.
Platoon Captain Mike Haines says two firefighters who were inside the basement became disoriented because of how smoky it was.
“You look at a structure like that and you think how could things go that bad? It doesn’t take long for things to change rapidly, and when guys are inside and they can’t see where they are going, its a different world,” he told NL News. “You’re really blind and to try and get your bearings straight, sometimes is tough.”
“It just changes the way we go about our tactics, and we managed to get them out fairly quickly after the mayday was called. Thank God everybody is okay, and we will use it as a learning tool.”
Haines says a Fire Investigator is at the scene today to determine a cause of the fire. It likely started in the basement of the house which was unoccupied.
“Based on the fact that there was no electricity to the structure, and the location of the fire, its under suspicion,” Haines added.
Fire crews were at the scene for about three hours yesterday but Haines says the fire was put out in just over an hour.