{"id":677054,"date":"2026-05-18T07:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677054\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:53:46","slug":"fire-under-the-arthur-laing-bridge-breaks-out-early-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677054\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire under the Arthur Laing Bridge breaks out early Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 12:30 a.m., Sunday morning, Vancouver Firefighters (VFRS) received multiple 911 calls about a fire at Southwest Marine Drive and Hudson Street.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke could be seen rising to the Arthur Laing Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived on scene, they found heavy smoke and fire coming from a boat in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1839-1-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters spray water on boat fire\" class=\"wp-image-4434756\"  \/>A boat fire under the Arthur Laing Bridge Sunday Morning (CityNews Images)<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters started to attack the fire and were able to put it out after an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is suspicious, and the Fire Investigator was on scene to investigate the cause.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_1837-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Firefights battle a boat fire\" class=\"wp-image-4434758\"  \/>Firefighters knock down a boat fire early Sunday morning (CityNews Images)<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Fire Assistant Chief Keith Stewart confirmed that nobody was injured, and the Vancouver Police Department is conducting an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) also responded to the incident, saying that the incident is under investigation by police and VFRS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly investigation suggests that this is the result of suspected arson,\u201d Const. Dareen Wong told 1130 NewsRadio.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At approximately 12:30 a.m., Sunday morning, Vancouver Firefighters (VFRS) received multiple 911 calls about a fire at Southwest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-677054","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\/677054","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=677054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}