Tweet Six Vancouver residents owe their lives to a smoke detector after an arsonist set their home on fire while they slept. The residents — a family with two children upstairs and a couple downstairs — were woken by the smoke alarm at 4 a.m. Fire officials say multiple fires had been deliberately set in [...]

Tweet The body of an elderly woman was found following a house fire in the 500 block of West 59th Avenue Monday night, Vancouver police said Tuesday. Vancouver Fire and Rescue contacted Vancouver police after extinguishing the fire and discovering the body around 8:15 p.m., said Const. Lindsey Houghton. The investigation is ongoing, but the [...]

Tweet One resident of a Vancouver rooming house is in hospital recovering from burns suffered in a fire that destroyed a ground-floor suite in the residence, police said. Vancouver police Const. Lindsey Houghton said the fire, at a house in the 3400 block of Kingsway, started shortly before midnight and sent a total of four [...]