Vancouver firefighters shut down traffic on a busy street due to a blaze in a residential building early Wednesday morning.
Vancouver Fire Rescue Services (VFRS) received a call on October 4 at around 5:30 a.m. about smoke in the area of Nanaimo Street and Grandview Highway and dispatched crews to the area, including six or seven fire apparatus and 24 firefighters, according to Battalion Chief Randy Boruck.
"The northeast corner of Nanaimo was fully blocked because we had fire lines across the road," he told V.I.A., adding that the Vancouver Police Department and transit workers helped his crew block off the street from Grandview Highway up to East Broadway.
The busy thoroughfare was closed for two hours as crews battled the blaze.
The fire broke out in a residential structure that the VFRS believed was vacant; no one was inside when it broke out and there were no injuries.
Boruck said the building retained its structural integrity as crews acted swiftly, characterizing it as a "good quick-fire attack."
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
