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Vancouver Fire and Police say a fire at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Chinatown is suspicious. This fire is the third 2nd alarm fire in the area in just over a day.

Vancouver Fire and Police say a fire at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Chinatown is suspicious. This fire is the third 2nd alarm fire in the area in just over a day.

No one was injured as flames spewed six metres in the air, according to authorities. However, fire and smoke spread to the houses on either side, resulting in "significant" damage.

VANCOUVER — Fire officials say a Monday morning blaze inside a downtown apartment building killed a Vancouver man, the fourth fire-related death in just 24 hours in the city after a house fire killed claimed three family members the day before.

VANCOUVER - Fire officials say a Monday morning blaze inside a downtown apartment building killed a Vancouver man, the fourth fire-related death in just 24 hours in the city after a house fire killed claimed three family members the day before.

Woman managed to escape the flames by climbing out of the window and into a neighbouring suite

Woman managed to escape the flames by climbing out of the window and into a neighbouring suite

  VANCOUVER -- Three homes in South Vancouver were evacuated Thursday morning after a landslide near a construction site on Southwest Marine Drive. Firefighters and police were called to the scene shortly after 9 a.m., according to Ken Gemmill, assistant chief of operations for Vancouver Fire Rescue Service. Gemmill said the slide itself, which he described as "kind of an earth collapse," happened early in the morning. Three properties on Tugboat Place - which is below the property where ...

  VANCOUVER -- A worker at the Port of Vancouver suffered significant burns in an explosion and fire at a grain silo Friday afternoon. Fire crews were called to a grain terminal on Stewart Street around 3:45 p.m. for a report that an alarm was going off. "Right away, we found an employee with quite severe second-degree burns," said Ken Gemmill, assistant chief of operations for the Vancouver Fire Rescue Service. Gemmill said workers at the terminal described the incident as a "dust explos...