By Kate Bouey / Beach Radio Vernon

Car crash, explosions level Salmon Arm 7-Eleven store

Aug 24, 2018 | 3:04 PM

SALMON ARM, B.C. — The 7-Eleven convenience store on Highway One in Salmon Arm has been seriously damaged by fire after a car drove into the building.

Firefighters, an ambulance and RCMP rushed to the scene around 1:50 p.m. Friday, according to eye witness Kelsey Hucul.

“The building went very quickly,” said Hucul. “I presume propane tanks started exploding because there were multiple explosions.”

It is not known if there were any injuries.

Hucul said the car had blocked the front exit and that people would have had to escape through the back of the structure.

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“First there were just flames coming out of the car and then it started getting into the roof and roof started falling, you know, the awning.”

Photos from the scene show a large black shell where store stood.

by Kate Bouey / Beach Radio Vernon

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