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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.