New Westminster firefighters saved three buildings and hundreds of their own uniforms from a fire that destroyed two businesses Sunday.
The blaze broke out in the walls of the New Venture Coin Laundry laundromat in the 400 block of Eighth Street around 6 p.m.
It took 42 firefighters, two water trucks and five engines to extinguish the stubborn fire by about 1 a.m. Monday.
Crews were called in from Burnaby to help.
“It was a hot night,” New West Fire Chief Tim Armstrong told the Record, “and we started to exhaust crews pretty early into the fire, so we asked for assistance from Burnaby.”
