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Six treated for smoke inhalation after Wall Street apartment fire

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Dozens are homeless after a low income apartment building in Vancouver catches fire
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A number of people are displaced from their homes temporarily after fire broke out in a third-floor suite of a Hastings-Sunrise apartment building Friday night.

At 7:15 p.m., fire crews responded to a two-alarm fire at a three-storey walk-up at 2080 Wall Street.

Credit: Tim Christiaens.

They managed to put down the fire, which was largely confined to one suite, fairly quickly.

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The occupants of that suite were not on scene at the time firefighters arrived.

Credit: Tim Christiaens.

Several neighbouring suites on the third floor suffered smoke and water damage.

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Six people suffered minor smoke inhalation.

No one was sent to hospital.

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