Grace Wuschke was making dinner when she thought she heard raindrops pelting her home in Vancouver’s Dunbar area last week. She looked outside and saw a fire tearing through an apartment building under construction, just a few feet from her residence.
Before evacuating, she noticed her neighbour’s truck parked outside.
“I go over to the fireman and I tell him, ‘This is our neighbour’s pickup,” she said. “He’s got to be in the house.”
Fire crews worked quickly, eventually rescuing the man from his washroom.
“There was so much noise with the sirens and the roar of the fire, that he could have been screaming his head off,” Wuschke said. “I wouldn’t have heard him at all.
On Aug. 6, a fire broke out at an under-construction apartment building near Collingwood Street and West 41st Avenue. The fire caused a construction crane to fall across the road and onto Wuschke’s neighbour’s home.
Nearly a week later, water is still spraying from what’s left of the structure.
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