Blaze leads to gas explosion, downed power and transit lines, and spreads to eight nearby homes.
VANCOUVER — An out-of-control fire destroyed an apartment building under construction in Vancouver’s Dunbar neighbourhood on Tuesday and then spread to several nearby homes, totally engulfing one of them.
“A fire like that creates its own wind. When a fire is as big as it was, all that wood is fuel for the fire,” Weeks said. Amani said that as she stepped outside, she could see a tower of flames and, shortly after, heard several explosions. Within minutes, flames appeared as firefighters and police raced to the scene of several homes on fire.
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