Thirty Burnaby firefighters attended a two-alarm blaze at a coffee roasting company Tuesday night.
Crews were called to 3955 Myrtle St., home of Pistol & Burnes, at 11:14 p.m.
“It was a biggie,” acting assistant fire Chief Laine Zimmermann told the NOW, adding firefighters were on scene for two-and-a-half hours.
“It was up into the roof, into the attic space, so they had trouble accessing certain areas of it. It took quite a while to get at all the spots,” says Zimmermann. “It was a wood-framed building, and when fires are burning in wood-framed buildings, I would consider it being aggressive.”
The origin of the fire was a coffee roaster, he adds.
“We’ve had this (kind of) fire start in those units before. It’s fairly common. The crews went back and checked on it every hour for a couple of hours after.”
The cause of the inferno is under investigation at this time. No injuries were reported, according to Zimmermann.
Calls to Pistol & Burnes were not returned.
