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Vancouver fire crews battle 2-alarm West End apartment fire

A Vancouver woman has lost everything in a devastating fire at her West End apartment. The blaze broke out this morning forcing residents out into the street. Neetu Garcha has the latest – Jul 3, 2019

Crews battled a fire at a three-storey apartment building in Vancouver’s West End on Wednesday morning.

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Jonathan Gormick with Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services said they received a call at around 7:15 a.m. and arrived to find heavy smoke billowing from a third-floor unit in an apartment building on Cardero and Nelson streets.

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Gormick said the two-alarm fire was “knocked down fairly quickly,” noting the apartment where the fire started suffered “pretty heavy damage.”

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The apartment building was evacuated, and there were no reports of injuries, Gormick said.

Investigators are at the scene and are working to determine a cause of the fire.

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