Image: Jon Gebbinck, used with permission /
Vehicle fire
Chilliwack firefighters extinguish truck fire at Coast Hotel
May 14, 2025 | 12:20 PM
CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack firefighters were dispatched just before 10 a.m. Wednesday morning after a work truck erupted in flames in the parking lot of a local hotel.
According to scanner traffic, Chilliwack Fire Department crews were dispatched at 9:53 a.m. Wednesday (May 14) for a truck on fire at 45920 First Avenue, the parking lot of the Coast Hotel.
Firefighters told dispatch the fire was located within the engine compartment of a work truck, which had been towing a trailer behind it. Fire crews radioed dispatch at 10 a.m. to tell them the fire had been struck, and overhaul was underway.
Video taken by Jon Gebbinck shows heavy flames billowing from the engine compartment of a work pickup truck.
