{"id":155162,"date":"2025-08-18T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155162\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:32:13","slug":"crews-respond-to-large-fire-at-langley-apartment-building-under-construction-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155162\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews respond to large fire at Langley apartment building under construction &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were busy Sunday morning responding to a large blaze in Langley City that destroyed an apartment building under construction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Langley City Fire Rescue Service Chief Scott Kennedy says crews were called to the fire at the six-storey building at 201A street and Fraser Highway at around 4:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen crews arrived, they were met with a wall of flame on the back of the building, almost going the full height of the building,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe building was still a few months from full occupancy. It wasn\u2019t completed. It\u2019s under construction at this point in time. Because of that, that probably aided in the spread of the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was designated a four-alarm fire. Crew members from fire departments in Langley Township and Surrey were called in to assist with the firefight.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Multiple nearby residential buildings were also evacuated out of an abundance of caution. <\/p>\n<p>A Langley resident named Morgan who lives near the site of the fire told Global News she heard big bang sounds this morning before noticing the blaze. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard the sirens I was thinking, \u2018OK, this is kind of going on for a little bit too long,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11337766\/mark-carney-praises-trump-ministers-sweden-defence-deals\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755502333_321_mark-carney-donald-trump-tariffs_133719.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPrime Minister Carney praises Trump as ministers jet to Sweden to talk defence deals\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11338329\/air-canada-strike-2\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fff6b904166cad0a03432ad8081af5a575674aed9297ee2da7524d4aacfe4de6.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tUnion representing Air Canada flight attendants says strike will continue\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWhen I turned over, I could see the red outside of the window. I immediately went out the front door and there\u2019s just debris all over the ground from the embers coming down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Langley RCMP says there are no reported injuries from the fire at this time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working with the Langley City Fire Rescue on this incident and the investigation into the cause of this fire is ongoing,\u201d said Langley RCMP Sgt. Zynal Sharoom in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident, was in the area at the time or has dashcam footage of the fire is asked to contact Langley RCMP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Firefighters were busy Sunday morning responding to a large blaze&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,5025,90536,90537,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-155162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-fire","10":"tag-langley","11":"tag-langley-city","12":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115048608717296601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}