talmey grad? :D
'02 right here

The whole section is blocked this morning with police monitoring traffic when I'm heading to work.

Probably many years ago(6+?) when the best western burned down on westminister and minoru.
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Here's a footage of the structure collapsing:

down the road to get to work earlier, saw a crane still spraying water

friend texted me that turns out she saw the building not the crane i guess she got over excited

Sadly no.
I moved here in 08
went to Mc Neil for a year tho
and then Mac Nair for Auto AP

Talmey Grad 06 ! lol

Talmey.... man I was there in like 93-95 then I went to Blundell then returned to Hong Kong.
Lived in the Oaks from 92 till 97 or so and sold our house in like 02
but yeah heard sirens all night at no.4

Wow, this one sucks.

A co-worker purchased a unit in the buildingand is not a happy camper today. Apparently any insurance payout won't happen in the next two months, and she won't get her deposit back until December. Unless of course the developer plays nice and returns the deposit.

ha good luck, they won't return anything until they absolutely have to, and even then they won't pay out until insurance pays them


as for all you ididots saying this fire was because it's a 6 storey building vs the previsous max 5 storey, it wouldn't have made any friggen difference

if a wood building is gonna burn during construction, it's gonna buy, it will just take them longer to put it out

obviously the sprinkler system wasn't installed and opterational yet, looks like they were just near the finishing stages of framing

doubt it was a heater as they wouldn't have needed one yet

i call arson

They're planning on rebuilding:

News1130 Staff May 04, 2011 12:56:54 PM
RICHMOND (NEWS1130) - The developer of a Richmond wood-frame development which went up in flames last night says they will rebuild.

The rubble at Cambie and Garden City Roads was still smoking this morning.

Dana Westermark with Oris Development says he doesn't know how long it will take to rebuild the complex at Cambie and Garden City Road. "There were 33 seniors units, 48 market-affordable units... they were rentals, and 107 market units."

Ted Townsend with the City of Richmond says it wasn't just housing that was lost. "In addition to a significant amount of social housing that was included in this project, there was also a very large child care facility. The City has established a district energy utility in that neighbourhood."

Westermark says the Richmond Fire Department did have concerns about six-storey wood-frame buildings in general but they spent a lot of time making sure their complex was as safe.

Crews are expected to be there for the next several hours

Wow, I used to live right next to where the fire was.

what's left from last nite

http://ow.ly/i/b9s9

There was debris iin our parking lot this morning at Westminister and No 6. Crazy that it flew so far.

So what was the cause?? Still investigating? I haven't heard anything about the cause being reported yet.

heard nothing on the cause atm...

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/9982/remyd.jpg

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sounds like they had some hot deals

its actually a vlog but majority of the video is the fire.

These guys were beside me...HAHAHAHHA

Wonder what the cause was...everyone was talking about it ytd.

No wonder marshmallows were sold out at Safeway....

^^^meh not funny, nice try tho

any news to cause yet?

so far the only "after" statement that I've heard is that the developer will be tearing everything down and rebuilding