Uptown-area 7-Eleven fire blocks Fourth Plain Blvd.; none hurt

A fire at an Uptown-area 7-Eleven blocked traffic at Main Street and Fourth Plain Boulevard Wednesday evening. No one was hurt.

Firefighters were called to the convenience store, at 102 W. Fourth Plain Blvd., shortly after 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Pete Adams said multiple callers reported the fire, and an employee said the chip aisle was on fire.

By the time they arrived, the fire had burst through two front windows, Adams said. The firefighters worked to control the flames from the outside, and once the fire died down some, they moved inside and extinguished the flames. It took the 28 firefighters on scene about 25 minutes to get the fire under control, he said.

Everyone inside got out safely, Adams said, and no one was hurt.

“Traffic became the biggest concern for us,” he said, with the early evening traffic in the middle of one of Vancouver’s busier areas.

The response closed a couple blocks of Fourth Plain for a few hours as firefighters completed their work and fire investigators examined the wreckage.