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Flames broke out at the building at East 10th Avenue and Prince Edwards Street on July 27, 2023. The damage left 30 people homeless.

Fu Ren and Feng Yan pleaded guilty to six of 20 code violations they were facing related to the building, but arguments over the remaining 14 did not get underway.

Inspection reports for a Vancouver apartment building gutted by a recent fire reveal the challenges that the city faces in getting property owners to address fire code violations — difficulties that leave renters in neglected buildings at risk, some experts and tenant advocates warn.

Boarded up but accessible, the city says it’s the owner’s responsibility to secure the building.

For the third time in two weeks, Vancouver firefighters were called to extinguish a blaze at a vacant apartment building in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood on Wednesday.

For the second time in as many months, flames broke out at an East Vancouver apartment building Wednesday – and the suspected cause is raising concerns among residents displaced by the last fire.

After a terrifying escape, Ayesha Tabassum says she wishes she had known about her landlord’s history with fires.

The landlords of the Vancouver apartment block that caught fire in late July, displacing more than 70 residents and sending five people to hospital, appeared in provincial court Tuesday morning over previous fire bylaw infractions at the building.

Ten years before a Mount Pleasant apartment blaze, a Burnaby building with the same owner was destroyed by flames. Now both properties are vacant.

A building gutted by flames lacked sprinklers and was cited repeatedly for fire safety violations.