A fire at a new affordable housing apartment building in Nanaimo last night sent one man to hospital with burns to his face.
Nanaimo Fire Rescue responded to an alarm in the 6000 block of Hammond Bay Rd. shortly before 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 20.
“It came in as a structure fire. We pulled up and there was some flames showing from the outside of the building,” said Troy Libbus, Nanaimo Fire Rescue assistant chief.
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