{"id":580385,"date":"2026-04-03T21:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:59:11","slug":"air-quality-monitored-after-barge-fire-in-surrey-emits-significant-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580385\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality monitored after barge fire in Surrey emits significant smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British Columbia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials say they are monitoring the air quality after a barge fire in Surrey, B.C., sent large plumes of smoke into the air.  Metro Vancouver Regional District said it&#8217;s aware of a barge fire near the stal\u0315\u0259w\u0313as\u0259m Bridge, also known as Riverview Bridge, which connects Surrey and New Westminster.\n<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters, Coast Guard responding to barge on fire in Surrey near stal\u0315\u0259w\u0313as\u0259m (Riverview) Bridge<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press  \u00b7 Posted: Apr 03, 2026 4:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Firefighters on a boat attack a barge that gives off smoke into the air on the water\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775253551_808_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Firefighters respond to a barge fire in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, April 3, 2026. (Metro Vancouver Regional District Emergency Services\/X)<\/p>\n<p>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 said it&#8217;s 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 said in a social media post on Friday around 7 a.m. PT that the blaze is producing &#8220;considerable smoke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It said firefighting efforts are ongoing and a video posted by the district shows a fireboat using water cannons to put out the flames. <\/p>\n<p>Goods on the barge have been reduced to ashes. <\/p>\n<p>Metro Vancouver said the fire has drawn a response from Surrey Fire Services and the Canadian Coast Guard, and the fire suppression operations are expected to continue throughout Friday. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Columbia Officials say they are monitoring the air quality after a barge fire in Surrey, B.C., sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-580385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580385","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=580385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}