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Emergency Crews Fight Apartment Fire In North Vancouver, B.C.

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 18 Jul, 2016 11:20 AM
    VANCOUVER — Firefighters are battling a fire burning at an apartment building in North Vancouver, B.C.
     
    Media reports say at least two people have been taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.
     
    The fire began around 5 a.m. Monday, and witnesses have reported seeing flames shoot out of the building's roof.
     
    Several roads in the area have been closed while crews fight the flames.
     
    There has been no word on what caused the fire. 
     
    B.C. WILDFIRE COSTS, NUMBERS DOWN OVER LAST YEAR THANKS TO WET WEATHER
     
     
    KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A provincial fire official says rain has dampened wildfire conditions across B.C. this summer. 
     
    Hot, dry conditions fuelled a number of blazes early in May, especially in the northeast of the province, but Claire Allen with the B.C. Wildfire service says wet weather has created a downturn in fire activity over the past month.
     
    She says the early fires spiked the wildfire service's costs and the province has now spent $72.7 million fighting fires this year.
     
    The province had spent $111 million by this point in 2015.
     
    Allen says warm weather is expected in the coming weeks, and crews are prepared to handle any fires that weather may bring.
     
     
    There have been 533 fires throughout the province this year, torching 934 square kilometres. 

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