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A central Alberta community is still reeling from a fire that destroyed the home and business of a local family, leaving one person dead and others in hospital with serious burns.

In the absence of clear answers, the community is joining together to support them.

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“I tried to (speak to him) but there’s no answer from any of them,” said Connor Wein, a close friend of Prabvir Tiwana, the youngest of two sons in the family that lived in and owned the Bashaw Motor Inn.

“They’re good, they get along with everybody, everybody liked them. They helped out whenever they could,” said Wein, who went to junior high and high school with Tiwana when the family first arrived in town about six years ago.

Fire crews were called to the motor inn early Sunday and found the building engulfed in flames. Three people who escaped the burning building were rushed to hospital. One has since been released while the other two were still being treated Tuesday. The unidentified body of one person was later found in the wreckage.