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BC Forest Products - rehabilitation

Black and white photograph depicts a BC Forest Products sawmill office with records damaged by fire.

On July 3, 1960 Vancouver firefighters battled the most destructive blaze since the city burned to the ground in 1886. The five-alarm fire occurred when fire destroyed the B.C. Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility on the south shore of False Creek at 999 West 6th Ave. The fire covered an area equal in size to four city blocks and took many hours to put out, causing $3.5 million in damage. A force of 350 men - more than half the city's firefighting force - was deployed, preventing the fire from causing even more damage. Whipped by winds of up to 60 kilometres per hour, the fire sent 10 firefighters and three civilians to hospital, while 45 others were treated at the scene. It destroyed warehouses, dry kilns, a planing mill, the head office of B.C. Forest Products, and 200 million board feet of lumber.

Link to a video of the fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOm-GwccAVU

BC Forest Products - rehabilitation

Black and white photograph depicts the BC Forest Products sawmill after being destroyed by a fire.

On July 3, 1960 Vancouver firefighters battled the most destructive blaze since the city burned to the ground in 1886. The five-alarm fire occurred when fire destroyed the B.C. Forest Products plant and lumber storage facility on the south shore of False Creek at 999 West 6th Ave. The fire covered an area equal in size to four city blocks and took many hours to put out, causing $3.5 million in damage. A force of 350 men - more than half the city's firefighting force - was deployed, preventing the fire from causing even more damage. Whipped by winds of up to 60 kilometres per hour, the fire sent 10 firefighters and three civilians to hospital, while 45 others were treated at the scene. It destroyed warehouses, dry kilns, a planing mill, the head office of B.C. Forest Products, and 200 million board feet of lumber.

Link to a video of the fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOm-GwccA

Copies of burning pier at United Grain Growers

Photograph depicts the burnt pier at United Grain Growers.

High contrast shot of tall, long steel structure on fire; streams of water projecting on to fire in right side of image; dark smoke in top half of image; tall buildings in middle right of image.

Fighting forest fires in Israel

Photograph depicts water bomber dropping load (possibly water or flame retardant) on a forest fire.
Written on verso: "File: JNF fighting forest fires in Israel. 1988/89."

Fire at United Grain Growers Pier, Vancouver

Photograph depicts the burnt pier at United Grain Growers.

High contrast side view of tall, long steel structure on fire; view of structure partially obscured because of thick, billowing smoke; small vessels crowded around pier; waves in foreground of image.

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