2 Vancouver police officers escape serious harm after suspect sets them on fire

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 11, 2025 7:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says 2 officers were acceptable connected occurrence successful the city's Downtown Eastside by a fishy trying to escape. 

Police accidental the officers mostly escaped harm, but the fishy had to beryllium treated for burns and is sitting successful jailhouse awaiting charges. 

A connection from Vancouver constabulary says the officers were connected ft patrol erstwhile they tried to apprehension a fishy wanted connected a B.C.-wide warrant for 10 antithetic offences.

The connection says the antheral ran, but the officers managed to instrumentality him into custody, and that's erstwhile it's believed helium utilized a flammable substance to acceptable the officers' uniforms connected fire, past escaped. 

The officers enactment the occurrence retired themselves portion different constabulary adjacent arrested a 40-year-old man. 

One serviceman was treated by paramedics and is presently recovering astatine home, accidental police, and the second serviceman was not injured.

Police accidental they are recommending aggregate caller charges, including assaulting a constabulary serviceman with a weapon, obstructing a constabulary serviceman and breaching a merchandise order. 

Police accidental much than 35 VPD officers person been assaulted connected work truthful acold this year, a 25 per cent summation implicit the aforesaid play past year.