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Duncan volunteer firefighters signal to their chief as they assess the situation during a blaze in an abandoned house on Second Street last Sunday. The fire was the second in two days for the Duncan fire department, both in homes that had been empty since fires in February. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
Two Duncan fires ‘suspicious’ KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
Fires that investigators are calling suspicious broke out in abandoned homes in Duncan on back-to-back nights last weekend.
The first fire was reported just before 10 p.m. Saturday in a home on Festubert Street. The second started around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday in a house on Second Street.
Both structures have been empty since they were damaged in fires in February. The Second Street home caught fire on Feb. 12, and the house on Festubert was struck on Feb. 20.
Neither of the February blazes were considered suspicious, but the situations are different this time. “The fires have occurred just one night apart in the early even-
ing hours which raises suspicions on its own,” North Cowichan/ Duncan RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Krista Hobday said. See PUNKS, Page 11
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