A busy 11 hours for the Vancouver Fire Department.
Between 3:40 p.m. and 2:15 a.m., firefighters were called to no fewer than five fires.
“We feel that all the fires are unrelated in nature,” says fire captain Gabe Roder.
“The first couple were residential fires in the east part of town. One was caused by a plumber and the other was caused by a roofer. Then we responded to a fire at an art gallery that is deemed to be suspicious in nature.”
He adds a container and a couch were also set ablaze, and that none of the 14 people displaced by the two house fires were injured.