Merritt Fire Rescue Department extinguished yet another structure fire in Merritt as firefighters came upon a barn fully engulfed in flames at about 2:30 a.m. last night.
The old, abandoned structure at 1500 Spring Street behind the Spring Island Mobile Home Park was put out in about an hour.
No one was hurt, and no other properties were damaged by the flames.
The fire is the second one in as many days to occur at a trailer park in town.
On Thursday firefighters extinguished a blaze in an uninhabited trailer in the Diamond Vale Trailer Park.
Both of these fires have been deemed suspicious, and the RCMP is now investigating.
MFRD Fire Chief Dave Tomkinson said he doesn’t suspect their to be a correlation between the two, but that will ultimately need to be determined by the RCMP.
Tomkinson said anyone with any information regarding these two fires should contact the Merritt RCMP at 250-378-4262.
