A second alarm fire adjacent to an East Vancouver scrap yard was preceded by a series of small explosions before spreading to a neighboring commercial building Monday night.
That blaze, which Vancouver Fire Chief Darrell Reid described in a tweet as “difficult to access”, was brought under control by about 11 pm.
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Reid tweeted that the blazes in the 1900 block of Triumph Street near Powell and Victoria attracted a large number of police and fire units to the scene, and a large number of onlookers as well.
There were no injuries.
The cause of the fires is under investigation and investigators will be on the scene Tuesday.