Dogs saved from house fire
Madison Erhardt
UPDATE 5:35 p.m. 35
Lake Country Fire Department chief Steve Windsor said they were called around 4 p.m. for a report of a house with flames from the top floor.
“We could actually see the column of smoke from one of our fire halls,” he said.
The fire had burned the outside of the house on Hallam Road and the attic, Windsor explained.
The burning house contained a litter of eight dogs and puppies saved by a neighbor. Firefighters also rescued three adult dogs, one of which was hiding from the flames in a shower.
“It was taken to the Fairfield emergency doctors in Kelowna, it would obviously have a smoke inhalation,” Windsor said.
“It was a difficult fire, it’s in the attic so we still get fire pits in this attic,” he said, adding that the house was “a lot destroyed”.
No one was home at the time of the fire, the cause is unknown.
UPDATE 5:20 p.m.
Firefighters are still fighting a house fire on Hallam Road in Lake Country.
A neighbor tells Castanet that several dogs were rescued from the house when the fire broke out.
The house was massively damaged by the fire.
There’s more to come …
ORIGINAL 4:45 p.m.
Firefighters fight a house fire in Lake Country.
The flame formed a large black cloud of smoke around 4 p.m., which was visible in the area and on the other side of the lake
Initial reports say the fire is burning on Hallam Road.
A Castanet reporter is on his way to the crime scene.
There’s more to come …
