Maple Bay home burns to the ground

February 20, 2012

A house in Maple Bay went up in flames early Saturday morning.

Fire Chief Gary Wicklund said when the department got the call at around 3 a.m., the home on McKenzie Dr. at Margaret was an inferno.

“The house was entirely engulfed in flames, it was quite dramatic.”

The blaze required four trucks and over 30 fire fighters to put it out, plus an additional truck from North Cowichan South End Fire Hall.

Wicklund said there were no casualties and that nobody was home at the time, except the dog who was in the yard and not hurt.

He said because the home was destroyed, they can’t tell where or how the fire started. The fire commissioner's office is investigating.