By Glenn Hicks

Family taken from harm’s way as garage ignites

Apr 24, 2018 | 6:03 PM

It was a scary experience for a Prince Albert mom, along with her four young children and boyfriend.

Kristal Litschell was woken by the banging on her front door on 14th Street West early Tuesday morning. It was a passing police officer.

“It was just before six in the morning and the officer said ‘You need to get out, there’s a big fire,’” Litschell told paNOW. “I got the kids out of bed and we got outside and the garage was completely full of flames.”

She said the fire department responded quickly as did city bylaw who assigned a security guard to watch as the fire cooled because her home is located right next to the school.

“It means so much to my family that their quick action kept us safe,” Litschell said.

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But it was a difficult experience all the same.

“It is totally traumatic to have to wake your kids and shout ‘fire get out’ and have your kids looking out the window and seeing these huge flames,” she said. ”It’s a shock; you’re standing outside with your kids crying and saying ’What happened…how can this be happening?’”

Litschell said the garage was located right next to her home and a neighbour’s and things could have been very different had the police officer not spotted the blaze.

She adds the garage does not have electricity and she doesn’t think it could have been an accident.

The P.A. Fire Department is investigating and Litschell is asking anyone who may have spotted anything to report it to police.

glenn.hicks@jpbg.ca

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