Three people escape from a burning travel trailer east of Kelowna

Two men allegedly attacked three people and tried to burn them inside a travel trailer in the Greystokes area east of Kelowna yesterday, July 23.

Two Kelowna men, aged 29 and 44, were found with minor injuries on Three Forks Road just after 1:30 p.m. after fire and emergency crews were called, according to a West Kelowna RCMP news release.

The men said they, and a 30-year-old women, had been attacked and the travel trailer was set on fire. The woman ran into the forest immediately after the incident and wasn’t found by Central Okanagan Search And Rescue until 7 p.m.

“Officers remain on scene conducting their investigation, and gathering physical evidence,” Cpl. Jocelyn Noseworthy, media relations officer for the Kelowna RCMP, said in the news release. “The investigation is still in its early stages and officers will be in the area for an undetermined period of time.”

Anyone with information is asked to call the West Kelowna RCMP General Investigation Section at 250-768-2880, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or by leaving a tip online at www.crimestoppers.net.


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Rob Munro

Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics