Fire destroys south Surrey home

A home in South Surrey has been destroyed in an early morning fire.

Surrey Firefighters were called to the house near 174A Street and 28 Avenue around 5:30 a.m. PT Saturday. Battalion Chief Ed Wells said the home was engulfed in flames when crews arrived.

"It was a strictly defensive exterior attack," he said."It was through the roof and the walls were already coming in when crews arrived. It was in a bit of a rural area so it appears it was going for quite awhile."

Wells said the house was not occupied and no one was hurt.

"There was a tenant who used to live in the house, who now lives in the back," he said. "The occupants were in the process of moving out, and there was just the one tenant staying in an outbuilding."

Wells said therenter, whohad moved out a week earlier, was living in the backand no one was home at the time of the fire.

He said the tenanthad no idea how the firestarted and that it did not, at this time, appear to be suspicious.

Map: 174A Street and 28 Avenue