A fire caused serious damage to a bakery in Vancouver late Saturday night.
Vancouver fire crews said the fire started just before midnight in the basement of Eat Your Cake on West Broadway between Granville Street and Hemlock Street.
The two-alarm fire quickly became a three-alarm after the first crews arrived to find heavy smoke billowing out of the bakery.
No one was inside the bakery at the time. One person in the building next door was treated for smoke inhalation, crews said, but the flames did not spread to any of the surrounding businesses and the fire got knocked down early Sunday morning.
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Vancouver Fire Chief Sheldon Young said the design of the building played a role in the blaze.
“In these older strip-mall type of buildings there is usually a lot of renovations over the years, so there’s usually void spaces,” Young said. “The fire was in one of those void spaces and it got into the roof area.”
The cause of the fire has not been determined.
A large number of Vancouver police officers were also on hand Sunday morning to redirect traffic around the scene.
Eat Your Cake took to Instagram Sunday to say they’re working to relocate to a new facility as soon as possible.
The financial remittance company next door, iRemit International, has also suspended its operations until further notice.
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