Image: Mission Fire Rescue Service

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Friday evening fire

Mission firefighters bring fire at homeless camp near Superstore under control Friday evening

Oct 10, 2025 | 9:19 PM

MISSION — Details are slim at this point, but firefighters in Mission have battled a fire Friday evening at a homeless camp behind Real Canadian Superstore at 32136 Lougheed Highway, the second fire at an encampment in the city in less than three weeks.

According to a brief statement, Mission Fire Rescue Service says the fire is under control and crews are working to extinguish hot spots.

Three fire units are on scene and a dozen firefighters are involved with actioning the fire.

On Monday, Sept. 22, a person was rescued from burning bushes after an encampment set ablaze near Mission Visitor Centre on Monday morning (Sep. 22). Mission Fire Rescue Service responded to reports of the fire on Lougheed Highway at around 11 a.m., but before that response, several community members stepped up to help.

Matt Mattice, a local plumber and business owner, got to the scene when he saw the billowing smoke. He said there was a police officer in an unmarked truck, as well as two off-duty firefighters who ran into the burning bushes.

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Image: Mission Fire Rescue Service / A fire at a homeless camp on Monday morning, Sept. 22.

“I guess [the fireman] had just seen some guy sitting in a fire, trying to get out of the fire, so he ran in there,” Mattice recalled. “[The person’s] legs are a bit cut up, and maybe some hair cinched off his legs.”

The fireman came out with a victim who had third-degree burns. Mattice and another person from the Centre then got water to help douse the person’s legs.

“His feet were really badly burnt, his shoes pretty much were half melted off his feet.”

Crews were busy for nearly two hours to extinguish the blaze.