Image Credit: Contributed / Angelica Monroy

By James Peters

Landscape Fire

VIDEO: West End compost fire started by homeowner using blowtorch to clear weeds

Sep 3, 2019 | 8:44 AM

KAMLOOPS — A compost fire in the West End was doused quickly Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 3).

Kamloops Fire Rescue Platoon Captain Darryl Cooper says the blaze at a home on Arbutus Street destroyed a compost bin and three cedars before it was brought under control.

Video Credit: Contributed / Angelica Monroy

“We had a quick knockdown,” said Cooper. “Some passersby noticed it, and then the homeowner got out with his garden hose and started knocking it down. We arrived on scene and continued with fire control and mopped it up.”

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Cooper says the homeowner admitted to having been clearing weeds on his property with a blowtorch, and notes that is clearly an ill-advised weed management strategy.

No one was injured.