Series Of Fires In VLA Neighbourhood Overnight
Prince George, BC – Prince George RCMP say an investigation is ongoing after three suspicious fires in the VLA Neighbourhood early this morning…
Media Liaison Officer, Corporal Craig Douglass, says a person of interest has been identified and RCMP believe there is no further risk to the public.
Douglass says, shortly after midnight, emergency crews responded to a fire in the 23-hundred block of Quince Street where two vehicles and a residence were engulfed in flames. All occupants of the home, and an adjacent residence escaped without injury.
Another fire call came in at 1:42am, fire and police personnel discovered a single vehicle burning in the 19-hundred block of Strathcona Avenue.
The media relations officer says the third incident involved two vehicles further down on Strathcona Avenue at 2:13am – one vehicle was fully engulfed in flames when crews arrived and the fire was spreading to the second vehicle. He says the cause of the fires has yet to be determined.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Prince George Detachment at 250-561-3300, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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What does VLA stand for?
Veteran’s Land Act
But these days it stands for violent living area
Or more commonly as “The Hood”
VLA originally was created for returning veterans of WW2 and each veteran was granted a parcel of land by the government for them to live and build on. Around the time of the first recession in the early ’80’s is when the hood started to resemble what it is today.
I lived in the hood in the 80’s it sure wasn’t like itis today!
Yeah, its too bad because even in the early sixties, that was a very nice part of town. When people started selling, opportunistic people with money started buying up properties and renting them out.
They got neglected then.
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