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The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings.A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to tall buildings.Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for fire departments: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating firefighting units to contain and extinguish.
Vancouver skyline, 2015. Vancouver is the most populous city in the Canadian province of British Columbia and has roughly 650 high-rise buildings that equal or exceed 35 m (115 ft), [1] and roughly 50 buildings that equal or exceed 100 metres (328 ft).
This is a list of high-rise building fires where the flames were seen to involve the façade. The original dataset used to create this list [ 1 ] was found by searching news reports and research literature 1990 to 2019, and it may be biased towards high-profile fires and English-speaking reporting.
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Pages in category "High-rise fires" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... 2015 Baku residence building fire; 2024 Valencia residential ...
Despite this, Vancouver has more high-rise buildings per capita than most North American metropolitan centres with populations exceeding 1,000,000. [citation needed] Vancouver's population density is the 4th-highest in North America and the city has more residential high-rises per capita than any other city on the continent. [citation needed]
Vancouver city skyline view Vancouver high-rises often sit on top of a commercial or residential podium. Vancouverism is an urban planning and architectural phenomenon in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada .
Vancouver House is a neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Construction of the skyscraper began in 2016 and was expected to be finished by the end of 2019, but completion was postponed to summer of 2020.