Fire investigators say it's too dangerous to board the barge on the Gorge waterway so the cause of the fire that sparked on Friday will go as “undetermined.”
Victoria Fire Battalion Chief Wayne Moody says the risk is too high for the reward.
“It is too risky for our members to be boarding and walking around on that and having an excavator being moving cars around so we have decided to keep this as an unknown classification.”
Fire crews and fire boat responded to tall smoke and flames from the barge carrying scrap cars owned by Schnitzer Steel at 2940 Jutland road on Friday afternoon and battled the blaze well into the evening.
A boom was set up to mitigate any further oil spillage into the waters.
Fire investigators believe there was likely some leftover fuel in the cars creating vapors that was sparked by steel being moved around according to Moody.
The Victoria Fire Department says the cities involvement in the investigation is down and now the Ministry of Environment and Schnitzer Steel will be left to answer the remaining questions.