Victoria police release video of vehicle amid arson investigation at Ukrainian pastor's home
CTV
Victoria police are hoping to speak with any occupants of a vehicle that drove past a family's home on Caledonia Avenue moments before the home went up in flames.
The fire began shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday at a home in the 1100-block of Caledonia Avenue.
Resident Yuriy Vyshnevskyy, a Ukrainian Catholic church pastor, his wife and three young daughters narrowly escaped the fire that's being investigated as arson.
The pastor says his wife called out to him from the first floor after she noticed someone pouring gasoline into the house through the home's mail slot.
"The moment that someone heard her, this is when the fire started," he told CTV News.
Vyshnevskyy's oldest daughter, 11, was injured as the children were passed from a second-storey window to the ground.
It was an ordeal that the pastor describes as "hell."
"It was hell because I knew that it was the only window out. It was the only way out," he said.
Investigators at the scene of the blaze at 1112 Caledonia Ave. on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (CTV News)
