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Seabus Station Evacuated due to Smoking Vessel

by uncleweed | December 11, 2007 at 10:12 pm | 796 views | 5 comments

The Seabus (not sure if it was the Otter or the Beaver) began smoking heavily upon docking at Waterfront Station. After passengers dismebarked and crew investigated the problem, the station was evacuated and firetrucks responded. The counterpart vessel waited in Burrard Inlet and didn't immediately dock.

Nothing more to report at this time.

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Evacuating the Seabus Station due to Smoking Vessel
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Brian A Kennedy

at 05:20 on December 12th, 2007

good stuff:

uncleweed, excellent local news -- thanks much for this. So everyone got out okay?

Rob Walker

at 06:49 on December 12th, 2007

good stuff:

uncleweed, thanks for getting this out to us so quickly. Are these your photos? Nice work.

uncleweed

at 10:40 on December 12th, 2007

Brian - yeah it seemed like no injuries - as soon as the smoke began billowing into the station, the alarm sounded the people trudged up the skyway. The folks heading to board the Seabus seemed to ignore the warning and contined down the skyway despite the alarm and people walking out en messae. There were no crew directing people so in a bigger emergency that could have been a crowd problem but in this case, the incident was quickly brought under control. I saw fire and paramedics arrive but limited activity required at that point.

Rob - I ride the Seabus every day so just happended to have great timing (again ;-)), once the vessel pulled in, i was standing at the back and noticed the smoke and grabbed my camera real quick before evacuation. I've got abit of video to post as well.