{"id":580293,"date":"2026-04-03T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:59:11","slug":"air-quality-is-being-monitored-after-a-barge-fire-in-surrey-b-c-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580293\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality is being monitored after a barge fire in Surrey, B.C. | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775249951_218_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are seen during operations to extinguish a fire on a barge in Surrey, B.C., in a Friday, April 3, 2026, handout photo. The Metro Vancouver Regional District says it&#8217;s monitoring air quality after a barge fire sent considerable smoke into the air. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout \u2014 Metro Vancouver Regional District (Mandatory Credit)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 3, 2026 | 12:01 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SURREY \u2014 Officials say they are monitoring the air quality after a barge fire in Surrey, B.C., sent large plumes of smoke into the air. <\/p>\n<p>Metro Vancouver Regional District says it\u2019s aware of a barge fire near the stal\u0315\u0259w\u0313as\u0259m Bridge, also known as Riverview Bridge, which connects Surrey and New Westminster. <\/p>\n<p>The district says in a social media post on Friday that the blaze is producing \u201cconsiderable smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It says firefighting efforts are ongoing as a video posted by the district shows a fireboat using water cannons to put out the flames. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are seen during operations to extinguish a fire on a barge in Surrey, B.C., in a Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,87674],"class_list":["post-580293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}