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Coldstream residents want homeless to move into shelters after blaze

Article online since August 15th 2008, 23:00
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COLDSTREAM, B.C. - Residents of Coldstream are suggesting the area's homeless people move into local shelters after a fire scorched a hillside above a campsite.

Investigators say the brush fire just north of Kal Beach may have been deliberately set. Thursday's blaze scorched just under a hectare of hillside behind a store and campground.

Acting fire chief Lawrie Skolrood says the blaze was human-caused and may have been deliberate.

There are a few homeless residents who stay in the area which is otherwise not generally used by the public.

Resident Jeff Hunkin has no doubt the fire was caused by a homeless person. He says up to 20 of them live in the area and have regular fires.

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