Apartment fire started by 11-year-old: Police
The fire at a Prince Albert apartment building that led to several minor injuries and left the tenants displaced early this month was started by a child with a lighter, city police said.
“The fire was started by an 11-year-old child,” Sgt. Travis Willie of the Prince Albert Police Service said. “He was playing with a lighter in a storage room in the building.”
The flames quickly grew out of control and the child fled the building. No charges will be laid, Willie said, as youths under age 12 cannot be criminally charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Although the child cannot be charged for his actions, Willie said officers have spoken with the child and his family and brought the case to the attention of social services.