VIDEO: Early morning blast and fire rocks rural Langley<\/p>\n
Published 5:00 pm Saturday, March 21, 2026<\/p>\n
Six Township fire trucks and 30 firefighters spent several hours battling a massive barn fire on 256 St. north of 24 Ave. in Langley Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
It took several hours to extinguish and forced a shutdown of the street. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
Neighbour Art Bandenieks, who used to own the property where the barn was located, said the area was rocked by \u201ca gigantic blast\u201d that sent fire and clouds of smoke billowing high into the air, destroying the strcuture, a former dairy barn built in 1967.<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently there were some propane tanks,\u201d said Bandenieks, who lives half a mile from the fire site and shared photos of the fire on social media.<\/p>\n
Bandenieks said the people who bought half of his 40-acre family farm turned it into a blueberry operation, \u201cso the big barn wasn\u2019t really useful for them other than storing equipment, including their blueberry picker\u201d which was worth an estimated $250,000, he estimated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey also had somebody renting space in there and storing truck tires.\u201d<\/p>\n
The roof had been changed from a metal roof to plywood and shingles, so \u201cthe flames just raced from one end to the other, and in half an hour it was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
By 10 a.m., the fire departmen had a big ladder truck in there, \u201cjust soaking the place down with water,\u201d Bandenieks described.<\/p>\n
Fire on rural property blocks off 256 north of 24 in Langley pic.twitter.com\/gBWVLNNMDc<\/a><\/p>\n