Vancouver fire led to crane collapse across road in busy Vancouver neighbourhood
Crews have begun removing a huge collapsed crane that has blocked a major Vancouver thoroughfare for more than two weeks, but officials say traffic on the street may not return to normal until the Labour Day weekend.
“There’s about a four-cubic-metre divot in 41st Avenue that is going to need to be filled in by folks from engineering,” Schwebs said at a press briefing on site Wednesday. WorkSafeBC, the province’s worker safety agency, gave the green light for the crane-removal operation on Tuesday, and Schwebs said debris should be mostly cleared from the site by Thursday, although there may be further cleanup.
The crane collapse happened during a fire in a six-storey building under construction in the Dunbar neighbourhood that spread and damaged nine homes. “What I can tell you is that the fire has been determined accidental, but the exact cause at this point is undetermined,” Connelly said.
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