Amateur film footage from the City of Vancouver’s archive shows the massive fire that started at the BC Forest Products sawmill and quickly grew into the first and only five-alarm fire in the city’s history. An estimated four-block area east of Oak Street was destroyed, forever changing the landscape of False Creek.
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Sawmill sparks Vancouver’s only five-alarm fire in 1960, destroying four blocks near False Creek
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