Langley Times, March 25, 2016

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Police and residents watched as Langley City firefighters, helped by Township crews, extinguished a fire in a second-floor unit at Carroll Court on Wednesday morning. The building on 201A Street, north of 56 Avenue, was constructed in 1964 and did not have sprinklers. Once fire crews arrived at around 8 a.m. they were able to quickly put out the fire, but the unit where it is believed to have started was destroyed. Displaced residents were taken to a local hotel. According to Langley Emergency Co-ordinator, Ginger Sherlock, many of the tenants do not have insurance. MIRANDA GATHE RCOLE L an gley Time s

Fire tears through Langley City apartment building One unit destroyed, others badly damaged in Wednesday morning blaze at Carroll Court MIRAN D A G AT H E R C O L E Ti m e s Re por t e r

A group of Langley City residents spent a rainy Wednesday morning displaced from their homes after a fire destroyed multiple apartment units at Carroll Court. Langley City firefighters were called out at 8 a.m. on March 23 to the building at 5630 201A St. to find flames shooting out of a second floor back unit. The adjacent Merton Court building, at 5640 201A St., was untouched. Dozens of residents and spectators

gathered out front as more than 20 firefighters from both the City and Township of Langley doused the flames. Employees from the nearby Valley Centre Starbucks brought over coffee and banana bread for the residents waiting outside, and the firefighters. One resident was rescued from the second floor by ladder, and six cats were brought out of another unit. There were no injuries, but two people were taken to hospital with respiratory concerns. The cause of the fire is still being inves-

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tigated, and there is no estimated cost on the damages yet. A second floor unit where the fire is believed to have started was destroyed, and there is significant damage to the third-storey unit above, and first-storey unit below. Volunteers from the Langley Emergency Program responded to the scene, and a transit bus was brought in as temporary shelter. Continued Page 3

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