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Fire damages 5 businesses, 4 homes in Kerrisdale area of Vancouver

Assistant Fire Chief Keith Stewart said crews arrived at West 41st Avenue near East Boulevard at around 10 p.m. Sunday night to find heavy fire in the rear of the two-storey building.

2 firefighters injured while tackling flames; 4 of the businesses are 'total loss,' fire department says

Smoke and flames engulf a business while firefighters stand on the street.
Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze that damaged 5 businesses and 4 residential units in the early hours of Monday in Vancouver's Kerrisdale neighbourhood. (Submitted by Ruv Staneke)

Vancouver firefighters say five businesses and four residential units above them have been damaged in a significant fire in the city's Kerrisdale neighbourhood.

Assistant Fire Chief Keith Stewart said crews arrived at West 41st Avenue near East Boulevard at around 10 p.m. PT Sunday to find heavy fire in the rear of the two-storey building.

Of the five businesses affectedtwo restaurants, a bakery, a yogurt shop and a vegetable market four are "a total loss,"Stewart said.The businesses are separateunits but are all part of the same building, he said.

The residential units were on the second floor, above the businesses. Stewart said residents in two of the units have been able to stay with family and friends, but emergency social services has had to help the three people in the other two units.

Three firefighters spray water from firehoses on a damaged building, with a firetruck in the foreground.
Firefighter are seen continuing to douse the site of the fire on Monday. Vancouver Fire Rescue Services said 2 firefighters were injured tackling the blaze. (Yasmine Ghania/CBC)

Stewart said it took 55 firefighters to put the fire out, and two of them were injured at the scene.

He said the fire is still under investigation.

Local resident Bianca Yau said she was sad to see the businesses lost to the fire.

"It's very honest and very genuine food," Yau said of Pho Tan's, the Vietnamese restaurant that was destroyed.

"It's real loss, a big loss."

Yau said the grocerthat was destroyed, Sandy Farm Market,was also a popular spot in Kerrisdaleand offered affordable options for shoppers.

With files from Joel Ballard and The Canadian Press