Vacationing Thornhill homeowners return to burned out house

YorkRegion.com
Jan. 10, 2016
By Lisa Queen

A Thornhill family vacationing in the Caribbean since New Year's is returning home today to a burned out house.

The homeowners have been told about the fire, which broke out about 5 a.m. Saturday, Vaughan fire platoon chief, Jack Thompson, said.

A faulty furnace is the suspected cause of the blaze on McClintock Cres. in the area of New Westminster and Steeles Avenue, he said.

Flames shot up through the ducts to the kitchen and then to the second floor and into the attic, Thompson said.

A passerby first noticed white smoke coming from the chimney and noticed an odour, Thompson said.

Seven fire trucks responded to the two-alarm blaze, he said,

Firefighters forced their way through a side door and were met with smoke, Thompson said.

The fire is estimated to have caused about $200,000 damage, he said.

Nobody was injured.