Fire investigators have finished assessing the remnants of an under-construction apartment complex in east Vancouver that was leveled by fire last week.
A dog trained to detect accelerants ran through the site twice, said Vancouver Fire Marshal Heidi Scarpelli, but she declined to disclose whether the dog detected anything. The 90-unit complex just south of Mill Plain Boulevard near Southeast 177th Avenue was about halfway done when a two-alarm fire destroyed it early June 20.
Now investigators are working to track down tips and leads they’ve received from community members. It probably will take a week or two to determine which information is relevant to the investigation, Scarpelli said.
“It’s not a slow process, it’s just meticulous,” she said. “All of those hard pieces of evidence … all of them together start to tell a story.”
