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Fire sale prices ... a massive blaze ripped through the construction site of a new housing complex on Cambie Road between Garden City and No. 4 roads Tuesday night. No one was injured in the fire which began around 10:30 p.m. and roared through the night. For more photos and a video of the dramatic inferno, go to www.richmond-news. com.
Remy will rise from the ashes: developer The developer behind the project that burned to the ground in a massive fire Tuesday night has vowed to rebuild it from the ruins. Dana Westermark, of Oris Development Corporation, said he was undeterred by the inferno that ripped through the Remy development in the Cambie district and will begin rebuilding it as soon as the insurance details are completed. Westermark said he remains firm on the project, despite fears expressed two years ago by Richmond’s fire department about its ability to deal with a blaze on what is the province’s only six-storey wooden-framed $
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building. “We’re going through the process with our insurers and then we’ll build it again and fulfill the expectations of our clients,” Westermark told the News. “We’re still fully committed to the sixstorey wooden framed building. When a building is under construction, very few of the systems are in place that would provide safety that would be in place if it were occupied. We’re still confident of the safety of such a building.” Westermark, who said he’d worked with the fire department over the last two years to alleviate their concerns, estimated the
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fire started between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., the time between the last visit from his security team and the first report of the fire. He said he had no reason to suspect anything suspicious had happened. No one was injured by the fire. City of Richmond spokesman Ted Townsend said it was too early to come to any conclusions about the cause of the fire at the site on Cambie between Garden City and No. 4 roads. And he said it was also premature to suggest the city should take another look at the safety of a building design that caused concern for Richmond’s own fire depart-
ment. “This is a construction site and there are lots of combustible materials around,” Townsend said. “And there were no sprinkler systems or fire prevention systems in place that would have been in place if the building was occupied. “The fire spread very quickly and was fully involved when the fire crews arrived. By then, it was a containment operation.” Townsend confirmed there are several other similar projects planned in the city. Several homes surrounding the blaze see Project page 4
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