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Langley City firefighters and RCMP are investigating two probable arsons that took place in the early morning hours of Tuesday in the downtown area. The fires were in the 20500 block of Fraser Highway, behind a restaurant, and in the 5400 block of 208th Street in an apartment complex. “It’s of great concern for the fire service, particularly when we have residents in their apartments, and at night sleeping,” said deputy city fire chief Bob Scott. The first call to the department came at 12:03 a.m., to the fire behind the Ashoka Indian restaurant. The fire gutted a wooden storage structure built up against the concrete wall of the main building. “The shed was fully involved when our first crews arrived at the scene,” said Scott. The firefighters quickly knocked down the flames, and managed to keep them from spreading into the main portion of the building.
There was some smoke damage to nearby Fish out of the same building as Ashoka for businesses. the past 16 years. On Tuesday morning, she “We were still actively involved in ventilatwas waiting for health inspectors to tell her if ing the adjoining businesses when we got a she would have to throw out all the seafood call of an alarm at Berry Road Estates apartin her cooler due to smoke damage. ments,” said Scott. Everything had to go, and not just the fish. That call came at 12:36 a.m. Of the 19 fire“All of our inventory, including our jarred fighters on scene, five crew members and a sauces and marinades,” said Jenkins. ladder truck headed to the apartment complex She was keeping the store closed due to the on 208th Street, a short distance away. need to clean up and replace stock through to They found residents streaming out of the Saturday at least. building in response to the fire alarms. Her insurance should cover the damage, “They did the right thing by evacuating the and she said the neighbours and other busibuilding,” Scott said. nesses and customers have been sendView Someone had set a garbage can in ing her positive messages. photos a third-floor laundry room on fire. A “Everybody’s so supportive and with resident had used a fire extinguisher great,” said Jenkins. to douse the blaze before it got going, She was worried at the possibility that and there was just some minor fire and one or both fires in the downtown could or online smoke damage, Scott said. have been set deliberately. “We’re treating both of these fires as “That’s a very scary thought, that you suspicious,” Scott said. can lose everything you’ve worked so There are no witnesses yet known to hard for,” she said. the start of either fires. The owners of Jenkins was called early in the morthe commercial building said there had ning by the fire department to let her been problems with homeless people entering know there had been a fire nearby. It’s the the shed behind the restaurant, but no one first time in 16 years that her business has knows if anyone was there at the time. been affected by a fire. Owners of nearby businesses had to deal The nearby McBurney Junction Furniture with the fallout after the fact. and Interiors was closed Tuesday due to the Heather Jenkins has run One Fish, Two fire, said co-owner Nikki Martini.
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