{"id":609657,"date":"2026-04-17T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:19:09","slug":"fire-rips-through-roof-top-of-yaletown-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609657\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire rips through roof top of Yaletown building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening, Vancouver Fire and Rescue Service (VFRS) was called to the Empress Galleria at 1118 Homer Street in Yaletown.<\/p>\n<p>Just after 8 p.m., VFRS responded to the call with seven fire trucks and arrived on site to find heavy smoke coming from the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Crews made entry and discovered a heavy grease fire in the rooftop vent system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was mostly confined to the cooking vent system and a little bit of the roof, so sprinklers didn\u2019t activate at this time,\u201d said Pierre Morin, Assistant Chief Operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrew went upstairs to the roof, and the office space is on the third floor. We found some fire in the roof and in the vent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Fire crews on top of 1118 Homer Street.\" class=\"wp-image-4420299\"  \/>A fire moves through the rooftop venting system at a building on Homer Street in Vancouver (Kyla Fradette)<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant, Elisa, has some water and fire damage.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were still on scene as of 9:45 p.m. but cleared the fire as of 10:25 p.m., reopening Homer Street.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/homer-street-fire-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4420310\"  \/>Fire on roof venting system. (Pierre Morin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday evening, Vancouver Fire and Rescue Service (VFRS) was called to the Empress Galleria at 1118 Homer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-609657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609657","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=609657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}