Fire forced the evacuation of an apartment building in Vancouver’s West End on Thursday morning.
The four-alarm blaze broke out in the Washington Court building in the 900-block of Thurlow Street around 9 a.m.
Flames were first spotted on the upper floors of the five-storey building.
One firefighter has been injured. Several residents were sent to hospital to be checked out, but there didn’t appear to be any life-threatening injuries, according to Capt. Jonathan Gormick of Vancouver Fire and Rescue.
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Gormick said they are working to determine the cause of the fire.
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According to Heritage Vancouver, the Washington Court apartment building was built in 1910.
Back in 1966, a fire destroyed the top floor of the building.
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