RCMP in B.C. have arrested a 19-year-old in connection with a “suspicious” fire that destroyed a community church in the northwest part of the province.
Burns Lake RCMP said officers were alerted by the Burns Lake Fire Rescue Department shortly after 5 a.m. on Dec. 20 that the Island Gospel Church located on Highway 35 was “fully engulfed in fire.”
Half the church was “fully destroyed” by the fire and the other section already had “significant damage” by the time officers arrived on-scene, the RCMP said in a Dec. 20 news release, noting that “the fire was immediately considered suspicious.”
Burns Lake RCMP Operations NCO Sgt. Anthony Brooks said investigators are using “significant local and support units to thoroughly investigate this incident, including the motive.”…