Colwood Fire extinguishes chimney fire before it spread to rest of building

Colwood Fire extinguishes chimney fire before it spread to rest of building
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Colwood Fire was initially called out to look into a burning complaint, but when they arrived firefighters found a chimney fire and were able to extinguish it.

Greg Chow, assistant fire chief of Colwood Fire says View Royal and Langford fire departments were called to assist.

“Crews made entry and identified a fire in and around the chimney and surrounding area and we were able to knock it down and extinguish before it got to the rest of the structure,” Chow said. “They managed to save the structure at this point in time.”

Chow says no one was home at the time of the fire, and there were no injuries.

He says there was a fire in the fireplace at the time of the fire.

There was water and smoke damage to the house.

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