Chilliwack Fire investigate suspicious fire to rear and interior of Meadow Rose Society; the charity helps families with young toddlers who are in financial crisis

CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Fire Department responded Monday night, Sept. 12 to a report of a fire in the rear building component of Meadow Rose Family Help Center Society, a non-profit charity in downtown Chilliwack near Main Street and Spadina Avenue, close to the Chilliwack Museum and Archives.

Assistant Fire Chief Chris Wilson of the Chilliwack Fire Department said the fire is suspicious is nature and is still under investigation. Firefighters were first dispatched to the location for a small fire burning on the outside of the building. The building sustained very minor damage to the interior and exterior, Wilson said.

The blaze marks at least the seventh fire in Chilliwack since August 20.

Meadow Rose Society posted on social media that it would be closed Tuesday, Sept. 13; it thanked the Chilliwack Fire Department for extinguishing the fire as well as the person who reported the fire so quickly.