A woman suffered significant burns to her hands and arms as a result of a fire in east Vancouver in the Cascade Highlands neighborhood, Monday afternoon.
Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Pete Adams said firefighters were first called to a report of a burn victim in need of help at Southeast 136th Avenue and Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard.
A friend had driven her there after a kitchen fire at her house, Adams said.
She had bad burns to her hands and arms, he said, and was taken to a hospital. After she was tended to, the firefighters decided it might be a good idea to check out the woman’s home to make sure the fire was out.
While they were walked around the woman’s two-story triplex, 903 S.E. 152nd Ave., one of the firefighters looked up and saw flames coming from attic vents, Adams said.