Five people are out of their homes after a fire tore through a trailer park in Maple Ridge early Sunday morning.
Firefighters were called out to the Centennial Motor Inn on Lougheed Highway around 3 a.m. They arrived to find flames shooting nine metres into the air.
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No one was injured but two of the homes were damaged. An 18-year-old man is being credited for waking his neighbours and getting them to safety.
“The trailers really aren’t built very well,” said Maple Ridge Fire deputy chief Howard Exner.
“They don’t stand up to fire very well, so fire moves through trailers very quickly. The spread between the trailer of origin and the other trailers close by was a problem for us to get a handle on right at the beginning.”
Officials say the cause of the blaze is still not clear.
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