Crews are on scene of a fire in a rail car in west Vancouver near the intersection of West Fourth Plain Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue. The fire, which involved a single rail car, was reported at 12:49 p.m., according to dispatch records. It was located in a switching yard near the Port of Vancouver.

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