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Crews Tackle Second Fire On Barge Loaded With Cars In Fraser River In Two Months

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 10 Oct, 2018 10:41 AM
    SURREY, B.C. — Officials are keeping a close watch on air and water quality along the lower Fraser River after a fire aboard a recycling barge moored in Surrey sent dense, black smoke billowing over parts of Greater Vancouver. 
     
     
    Metro Vancouver did not issue air quality warnings Tuesday night but a spokesman with Surrey's fire department said the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority harbour master was checking water quality in the river.
     
     
    A fireboat from Vancouver helped knock down the flames several hours after they broke out at about 5 p.m. on the barge at Schnitzer Metal Recyclers.
     
     
    An Environment Ministry spokesman says the company is the same one involved in a similar barge fire at the same location on Aug. 10.
     
     
    In both cases, the barge was loaded with what the ministry describes as "end-of-life, depolluted materials" such as crushed vehicles and appliances.
     
     
    The 76-metre barge remains afloat, tethered to the Fraser River foreshore, while an investigation into the cause of the fire continues.

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