4 taken to hospital, 4 homes destroyed in 'suspicious' Port Moody fire: police

The residents of four Port Moody, B.C., homes won’t be able to return for “quite some time” after a large fire that police regard as suspicious sent four people to hospital early Monday.

The fire broke out shortly after 4:30 a.m. PT in the Heritage Woods area of the Metro Vancouver city and quickly engulfed four units in two townhouses, according to Port Moody Fire Rescue Chief Darcey O’Riordan.

Crews, including an off-duty Surrey firefighter who lives in the block, rescued three people off a balcony and evacuated dozens more from several neighbouring units as a precaution, he said.

“The victims had some smoke inhalation and were transported to hospital along with the Surrey firefighter,” said O’Riordan. “As

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