12:01 am Oliver (  cleared at 1:54 am )
5439 Primrose Lane – south of Rd 3
Fortis turns off power so firefighters can get into a smoke filled house. Not occupied. One neighbor said – landlord and tenant not agreeing on much. Known drug house. Site of major RCMP operation/incident a year earlier.
Smoke billowing up on east side of house when ODN arrived, putrid smell for miles. No visual flames.

Previously on ODN – ERT  use gas to wake up the suspects…..
RCMP surrounded a house in an Oliver rural area on a Wednesday evening – December 14, 2016 – in order to effect an arrest of a male wanted on a Canada wide warrant.
Mounties confirmed a location at Primrose Lane & Road 3. Additional resources included assistance from the Southeast District Emergency Response Team.
23 year old Dillon Côté, who was the subject of a Canada wide parole revocation warrant, was arrested.
Côté and a female refused to exit the home until 04:00 am, when police utilized a distraction method and gas shell to force them out of the home.
Picture below taken morning after.