Watson Lake, Yukon, couple loses home to fire, community rallies to offer support
CBC
The community of Watson Lake, Yukon, is coming together to support a respected elder and her partner after their home and truck were destroyed in a fire.
According to the Watson Lake Fire Department, at around 11:10 p.m. on Tuesday, it responded to a report of a vehicle fire at elder Jocelyn Wolftail's home in the Otter Lake subdivision.
When crews arrived they saw a truck on fire, and the flames had also extended to the home.
[The fire] was through the roof and into the front of the structure," Joey Chirpin, the fire chief, told CBC News.
"Approximately 80 per cent of the house was involved at that point with partial collapse on the front side of the structure in the roof area."
Chirpin said firefighters made quick work of putting out the blaze, but once extinguished it was determined that the home