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Huge blaze on Burnaby Mountain won't be investigated: deputy chief

The Burnaby Fire Department says it won't be conducting an investigation into a fire Saturday night a few hundred metres from the Kinder Morgan fuel tank farm on Burnaby Mountain.
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A building on Burnaby Mountain was destroyed by fire Saturday night. SHANE MACKICHAN PHOTO

The Burnaby Fire Department says it won't be conducting an investigation into a fire Saturday night a few hundred metres from the Kinder Morgan fuel tank farm on Burnaby Mountain.

The department needed 34 firefighters to get the blaze under control and needed hundreds of feet of connected hoses to get enough water to the scene.

Assistant Fire Chief Stewart Colbourne says the fire was in a garage or storage area and the building was fully consumed, so the department won't be able to figure out the cause.

On Saturday, Deputy Chief Dave Samson said the department was called to the blaze in a large equipment storage facility used by a demolition business.

The building is in a property bordering a narrow greenbelt at the edge of the Kinder Morgan facility, where 13 huge tanks hold crude oil and refined products awaiting distribution.

The facility can hold up to 1.6 million barrels of fuel.

Kinder Morgan is planning to expand the site, doubling the number of storage tanks, in preparation for the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline which ends at the facility on the Burrard Inlet.

-With files from the Canadian Press