The Dirty News posted some videos of a huge fire in Surrey and I was like WTF that'as just down the street. I just drove past there earlier today on the way home from the gym. The video they posted was taken from Coquitlam. That's across the river so the fire was huge. I drove down and checked it out. By 11:45 they had the fire well under control.
You could see some large flames at the back of the building when I arrived which were quickly brought under control. Their secret was the hit it with a ton of water. I came up the back way beside Econo Storage and you could see a small river of water flowing from the scene all the way down to Whalley Ring road.
The fire was at 104 and 140th Street. It looks like the fire was at the electric scooter shop beside the stone oven bakery. I guess we'll hear if it was an electric battery that caught fire or if it was an extortion threat.
Update: OK I stopped by Sunday at noon and the store has been completely gutted. There's no walls or ceiling left.
There was graffiti written on the wall outside that said "This was NOT caused by Ebikes. This was overloaded old wires." I'm not sure how they would know that until an investigation is conducted and it would be pretty hard to determine the source of the fire after it was completely gutted.
The graffiti also said It also says we cut off the power at 5:00 PM. It's possible there was staff on scene that saw where the fire started before they evacuated. The fire department did a great job containing the fire. It was huge.
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