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Firefighters battle a fully-engulfed blaze at the Esso station on Yarrow Central Road Wednesday morning. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Gas station blaze sparks Yarrow evacuation Robert Freeman The Progress Emergency crews knocked down a fire in a Yarrow gas station Wednesday that came dangerously close to fuel pumps. “It’s all knocked down now,”
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Chilliwack fire prevention officer Don Van Beest reported from the scene, at about noon Wednesday. The fire started at about 10:35 a.m. Businesses and residents within a 300-metre radius of the station at 42170 Yarrow Central
Rd. were evacuated to a nearby church, as officials feared a possible explosion. “They are all safe and sound,” Chilliwack RCMP media liaison officer Cpl. Tammy Hollingsworth said. But a man who was working on
tank of the car, and it’s a car that caught fire in a bay sub-leased from video-online] believed that static electricity built up from that the station was treated for burns to his hands www.theprogress.com and ignited. The flames ignited and arms. Assistant fire chief Ian oil products and about 40 tires Josephson said the man was inside the station, and the wood draining gasoline from the gas Continued: YARROW/ p5