
Monday afternoon roof fire at Royal Inland Hospital extinguished quickly
KAMLOOPS — Interior Health is assessing the damage after fire broke out at the Phil and Jennie Gaglardi Patient Care Tower at Royal Inland Hospital Monday (June 27).
Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) was called to the tower at about 2:15 p.m. Monday.
“There were a bunch of roofers up there doing some roofing,” said KFR’s Lt. Henry Chin. “The roof caught on fire. We attended with a five-man attack crew, extinguished the fire, looked for extensions and we found nothing else.”