Several residents are unable to return home after a fire swept through a three-storey apartment building on Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver on Wednesday afternoon.
Flames broke out in a second-floor unit shortly after 4 p.m., trapping some tenants in the burning building.
“When I came around the corner my heart dropped,” tenant Jeremy Zirk said. “I had no idea.”
As a family screamed from inside their apartment, some tenants, along with a neighbour from across the street, jumped into action.
“They couldn’t get out of their suite so we had to lower them down onto the roof of my Jeep,” tenant Damon Pappas said.
“The mother handed us the daughter first and then the mom came second and then the grandma came,” neighbour Ruby Michaelis said. “The grandma was a little shaken up but she was OK.”
City of North Vancouver Fire Department extinguished the fire quickly, but three suites suffered serious damage.
One resident was sent to hospital for smoke inhalation.
– With files from Kristen Robinson
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