{"id":78161,"date":"2025-08-18T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78161\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:21:10","slug":"crews-respond-to-large-fire-at-langley-apartment-building-under-construction-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78161\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews respond to large fire at Langley apartment building under construction – BC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Firefighters were busy Sunday morning responding to a large blaze in Langley City that destroyed an apartment building under construction.<\/p>\n

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Langley City Fire Rescue Service Chief Scott Kennedy says crews were called to the fire at the six-storey building at 201A street and Fraser Highway at around 4:15 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen crews arrived, they were met with a wall of flame on the back of the building, almost going the full height of the building,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

\u201cThe building was still a few months from full occupancy. It wasn\u2019t completed. It\u2019s under construction at this point in time. Because of that, that probably aided in the spread of the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The blaze was designated a four-alarm fire. Crew members from fire departments in Langley Township and Surrey were called in to assist with the firefight.<\/p>\n

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Multiple nearby residential buildings were also evacuated out of an abundance of caution. <\/p>\n

A Langley resident named Morgan who lives near the site of the fire told Global News she heard big bang sounds this morning before noticing the blaze. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I heard the sirens I was thinking, \u2018OK, this is kind of going on for a little bit too long,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I turned over, I could see the red outside of the window. I immediately went out the front door and there\u2019s just debris all over the ground from the embers coming down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Langley RCMP says there are no reported injuries from the fire at this time. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working with the Langley City Fire Rescue on this incident and the investigation into the cause of this fire is ongoing,\u201d said Langley RCMP Sgt. Zynal Sharoom in a news release. <\/p>\n

Anyone who witnessed the incident, was in the area at the time or has dashcam footage of the fire is asked to contact Langley RCMP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Firefighters were busy Sunday morning responding to a large blaze…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,1132,47517,47518,44],"class_list":["post-78161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fire","tag-langley","tag-langley-city","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78161","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=78161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}