Flames and smoke could be seen rising from a construction site on Vancouver west side Tuesday evening in the city’s second major fire of the day.
Video of the scene showed a crane falling in the fire’s vicinity at West 41st Avenue and Collingwood Street.
The large fire in the city’s Dunbar neighbourhood started around 6:30 p.m. PT.
The blaze engulfed a six-storey building that was under construction, while also spreading to a number of surrounding homes and displacing several residents.
Dozens of fire crews from Vancouver, Burnaby and Richmond were at the scene to respond to the fire. Its cause is still under investigation.
No injuries have been reported.
A spokesperson for the Provincial Health Services Authority, which manages the B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS), said no one had to be assessed for injuries and no one needed to be taken to hospital as of 8:30 p.m. PT.
The city’s first fire of the day occurred Tuesday afternoon at an abandoned apartment building at 414 East 10th Avenue in East Vancouver, one year after a massive fire there displaced 70 people.
