Surrey firefighters battle fire at BC Hydro, Powertech Labs building<\/p>\n
Published 7:38 am Friday, July 3, 2026<\/p>\n
Firefighters in Surrey were busy battling a fire in a commercial business park Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
Around 8:30 p.m. Thursday (July 2), Surrey Fire Service crews responded to reports of a fire in the 12300-block of 88 Avenue and were met with black smoke showing from the roof area.<\/p>\n
The single-storey, large commercial warehouse building is used by BC Hydro as well as Powertech Labs, Surrey Fire Service assistant chief Geoff McIntyre said, noting the fire was upgraded to a second alarm, drawing 24 firefighters and eight fire trucks to the scene.<\/p>\n
It was a difficult fire to fight due to some high-voltage operations inside the building as well as low visibility inside because of all the smoke, he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fire was eventually extinguished \u2026 our crews did a great job and contained it to the building of origin,\u201d he said, sharing that at one point, an in-house fire suppression system was activated that uses a fire-suppressing foam.<\/p>\n
No firefighters or civilian injuries were reported; the cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey firefighters battle fire at BC Hydro, Powertech Labs building Published 7:38 am Friday, July 3, 2026 Firefighters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-778105","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\/778105","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=778105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}