Burnaby firefighters were called to a grass and brush fire near a homeless camp by Highway 1 near Willingdon Saturday evening.
Crews were called just after 7 p.m. to a fire on the north side of the freeway between Douglas Road and Willingdon Avenue.
The blaze was discovered east of Westminster Street.
“It was just a bunch of the grass in the area in a homeless camp,” assistant fire Chief Stew Colborne said.
Firefighters confined the fire and searched for anyone who might have been hurt but found no one, he said.
Crews then soaked the area around the blaze and put it out with foam.
“We do get called there because they have little campfires going to cook their food and then we get reports of smoke in the area,” Colborne said of the homeless camp. “It’s not like it’s every day, but we do get calls there.”
