City of Abbotsford logoAbbotsford city crews conducted a cleanup of the Gladys road homeless camp following a fire on Sunday night.

Mayor Henry Braun says they removed a whole bunch of combustible materials as a safety precaution.

“This is my worst fear, there’s another fire and one of the three or four propane canisters that I saw, if one of those things explodes people will either be critically hurt or worse there’s going to be a death. Both in the camp but even a passerby driving by, if it happened at the wrong time, could be affected.”

Braun says the camp will not be dismantled in any way, saying that the City has decided to not take any action of that nature until the lawsuit over the city’s overnight camping bylaws gets to court.