Attached convenience store and restaurant were also destroyed in the fire.
The Esso Gas Station on Anderton Road in Comox is a charred ruin today after a car drove into a fuel pump and flames quickly spread from the pump, to the car, then to the convenience store and restaurant.
Comox Fire Rescue mounted a quick response with 22 of its members and put out a request for mutual aid, Captain Pascal Lafreniere said Sunday. Courtenay and Cumberland fire departments responded with an aerial truck and an engine. Residents of Anderton Place apartment building were told to leave for several hours because of their close proximity to the fire. One resident suffered smoke inhalation. The driver who struck the fuel pump also had minor injuries, said the fire captain.
“I want to send a really big thank you to all the firefighters in Comox as well as to our mutual aid partners, Courtenay and Cumberland fire, the RCMP, B.C. Ambulance and B.C Hydro,” said Lafreniere, who estimated there were 35 firefighters on scene battling the blaze.
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