Flooded and burned down the same day

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Éric Beaupré

Friday, February 23, 2018 12:28

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DRUMMONDVILLE | A citizen of Drummondville has been unlucky, his residence having been flooded – because of the warm spell – and set on fire Friday morning.

The Service de sécurité incendie de Drummondville was called at 6: 46 a.m. in the Saint-Nicéphore, Drummondville, for the arson of a residence.

They are neighbours on the other side of the bank, who have called the central 911 to report that a house was in flames in Longue Pointe, Saint-Nicéphore.

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Impossible to intervene

The residence was already engulfed in flames when the fire department arrives. They have also faced a problem of scale, because their vehicles could not be brought to the vicinity of the fire. The ice and water had in effect rendered impracticable the pathway leading to the residence, nearly half a kilometre from the main road.

The fire department went on foot to the disaster site, only to find that it was already too late, because the house is completely burned when they did it.

Andrew Barr, the director of the Service de sécurité incendie de Drummondville, met on the spot, all the same wanted to be sure that no one was in the house and that the fire will not propagate to the neighboring residences.

“The fire Department and the SIUCQ had already evacuated the area, but we stuck it out, gained consciousness, and to ensure that no one was returned in the house.”

The fire Department has also come on-site teams of Hydro-Québec in order to avoid that neighboring residences are without power, and to ensure the supply of electricity to water pumps in order to limit the damage caused by the floods. Firefighters, with the assistance of municipal staff, managed to find a way to turn off the remains of the building in the late morning.

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Causes

The house is a total loss. The owner visited the site, escorted by the fire Department, to see the damage.

According to what we could see, the fire could have resulted from an electrical problem. No suspicious item was found at the scene of the disaster.