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Firefighters on scene of blaze at Lynn Valley seniors’ apartment complex in North Vancouver

Firefighters are on the scene of a second-alarm structure fire at the Silverlynn Apartment complex seniors’ centre in North Vancouver Saturday.
Crews from three different fire departments went to the scene to battle the blaze at the apartment complex.
District of North Vancouver spokesperson Ryan Schaap says the blaze broke out Saturday morning. As of noon, crews were still battling the blaze.
Schaap says the building has suffered “significant damage,” but the extent won’t be known until it is put out.
He says displaced residents are being sent to a church nearby where North Shore Emergency Management has established a reception centre.
Photos and video footage posted online show the building engulfed in flames, with thick black and grey smoke billowing overhead and visible from far-away parts of Metro Vancouver.
District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little says in a Facebook post that the fire at the seniors complex will take hours to put out and a “full accounting” of residents has yet to be completed.
Several callers to 1130 NewsRadio reported seeing huge plumes of smoke coming from the North Shore.
A caller named Amber tells us what she saw as she was driving over the Lion’s Gate Bridge.
“The plume of smoke is huge, you can totally see how it’s drifting down, literally, through North Vancouver, over past the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge,” she said.
“It is totally smoky, like hazy down into downtown Vancouver, like you can’t even see the SeaBus terminal anymore. So whatever’s on fire is huge, and it is blowing into the city.”
Amber says she first noticed the smoke just before 10 a.m., but by 11 a.m., it had grown substantially.
We have reached out to the fire department, RCMP, and BC Emergency Health Services for more information.
This is a developing story.