No one was hurt but a Davis Bay couple has seen their home severely damaged by fire.
Sechelt Volunteer Fire Department crews were called to the scene on Laurel Avenue just before 5 p.m. Thursday when a car fire in a garage spread to the rest of the house. The car, a late model Porsche, proved too difficult to extinguish before the garage and house around it went up.
"The magnesium was burning and the carbon fibre was burning and gas tank erupted," said SVFD chief Bill Higgs. "We got out mini-pumper on scene and that was good and had the fire just about out, but the fire broke through to the attic of the house and fire ran through the attic and ran through the roof of the house before we got it under control."
Higgs said the owner was working on his car at the time and it is not clear how the fire started.
Higgs said the house might be a total loss.
"The owners are really shook up and displaced. It was a major event for them," he said.
The fire was the first time SVFD's new ladder truck was called into action. Higgs said its use prevented the fire from causing more damage and put firefighters in a much safer position when combating the blaze.
" It was really helpful in getting the fire out in the attic because we could get an elevated stream up and knock down a big body of fire," he said. "It allowed us to knock the fire down way quicker than standing around on the outside, trying to put water on it."
