Residents of one half of a Burnaby duplex are out of a home after a fire Wednesday morning.
Firefighters were called to the 3700 block of Kincaid Street at about 11 a.m. for reports of a structure fire, according to assistant fire Chief Derek Masaro.
At the scene, crews found heavy smoke and flames coming from a back corner of one of the units.
“Flames had spread up into the attic, through the roof,” Masaro said.
The building had been evacuated before firefighters got there, and a search found no people or pets.
There were no injuries, but the blaze did “extensive damage” to the rear of the unit where the fire started, rendering that residence uninhabitable, according to Masaro.
The silver lining – for the neighbours at least – was that firefighters managed to keep the flames from spreading to the other half of the duplex.
“We contained the fire to the one unit,” Masaro said.
In all, 10 trucks responded to the two-alarm blaze.
Fire investigators are looking into what sparked the fire.
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