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MERRITT HERALD FREE
THURSDAY, TH T HURSDAY, NO NOVEMBER OVE V MBER 5, 2015
NOT FORGOTTEN The story of how the resting place of one Nicola Valley war hero was rediscovered. See the Herald’s Remembrance Day supplement inside.
Fireworks displace homeless man At about 9:30 p.m. Halloween night, the Merritt Fire Rescue Department (MFRD) and RCMP responded to a call of a tent fire along the Nicola River, near Lions Park where a homeless man has been living for several weeks. There were reports of youth setting off wireworks in the area at
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the time of the incident, an RCMP press release stated. Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson told the Herald the surrounding brush was set ablaze by Roman candles, destroying several belongings. The man was not in his tent at the time, but returned to it when emergency crews arrived, Merritt RCMP Sgt. Norm Flemming said. Flemming said a propane stove and lantern caught fire and the
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man’s tent burnt up. “There were spent fireworks in the area, the fire department doused everything with water,” he said. “The guy camping there believed he had turned his stove and lantern off prior to leaving,” Flemming said. “We had no witnesses to support anyone specifically seeking to damage anything or to cause a fire.”
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