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Construction crews spotted the smoke and shot the first video (above) from Wednesday’s fire in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Maybe when they rebuild they can get them even closer together.
Monisha Martins, Maple Ridge News:
A fire which started in a home under construction in east Maple Ridge Wednesday afternoon quickly spread to destroy three other houses and badly damage another.
The fire broke out at about 3:45 p.m. near 227th Street and 136A Avenue in Formosa Plateau, a new neighbourhood in Silver Valley in northeast Maple Ridge.
The fire department believes the blaze started in a house where builders were working but quickly spread to an occupied house and three others that were under construction.
No one was at home in the completed structure, which was still standing when the fire was extinguished but had a massive hole burned through one side of the structure.
Authorities say the cause of the blaze is still under investigation, though witnesses say a crew of workers were sealing the deck of one of the homes with blowtorches shortly before it started.
Crews had trouble fighting the inferno due to water pressure problems.
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I’m sorry…did someone say “deck” and “blowtorches”? What part of that made sense to someone?
Trying to figure that one out myself.
Maybe in these type developments the drywall should be on the outside of the houses since they continue to use vinyl siding.
Morons
Career/On Call Department,,,,,http://www.mapleridge.ca/EN/main/emergency/Fire_Department.html
Where is the FD and why do these homes have to be built on top of each other.How about block construction and a sprinkler ?
sprinkler?!? that would have helped!!!!
Not in this instance but if these houses were occupied maybe it could have made a difference.
As a Canadian, I’d like to say that most of us do not use four letter words for every second word in a sentence.
Unfortunately, two of the recent videos of Canadian incidents had such “narration.” One would think that if one was planning on posting such a video on-line, they’d pay a little attention to their language.>br>As for the fire, a prime example of what happens when you build with toothpicks and cardboard…