A mattress may have been the ignition point for a Labour Day house fire in Burnaby, but the incident is still under investigation, according to the Burnaby Fire Department.
Firefighters were called to the 4700 block of Pandora Street just after 6 p.m. Monday for reports of a building fire, assistant fire Chief Gavin Summers told the NOW.
On arrival, crews saw smoke coming from the house.
They forced open the door to the basement suite and discovered “black, heavy smoke” inside, Summers said.
“It seems it could be the mattress was the ignition point,” he said. “That’ll explain why it was just smoke and smoldering fire.”
Summers said fire investigators would likely be on scene Tuesday.
A search didn’t locate anyone in the building.
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