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Maple Ridge fire victim was 68-year-old man

Identified as Robert Allen Campbell.
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Fire crews rescued one person from an apartment fire on Sunday.

The man killed in a fire at Urbano apartments in Maple Ridge on Sunday morning has been identified as 68-year-old Robert Allen Campbell.

Firefighters were called at approximately 10:30 a.m. to the downtown condominiums at 12238 - 224th St.

Fire crews got the lone occupant out alive, but Campbell was severely burned and transported by air ambulance to the Vancouver General Hospital burn unit, where he was pronounced dead.

The fire was in a second-floor unit in the four-storey complex. Firefighters contained the fire to one unit.

Firefighters are the B.C. Coroner's Service are still investigating the cause of the fire, but it was not deemed to be suspicious.

 



Neil Corbett

About the Author: Neil Corbett

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years, the past decade with the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.
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