"Smells like tar": Thousands wake up to foul odour in Metro Vancouver

Tens of thousands of people woke up to a foul stench in the air Sunday morning in parts of Metro Vancouver. It was an acrid smell, like burning plastic or creosote. "We didn't know what it was. I said, it smells like tar out here and that was it. Nobody knew," one Burnaby resident said. The Burnaby Fire Department says they've determined it was not a toxic release from the Parkland refinery. While we now know where the odour came from, we still don't know what it was. Julia Foy reports. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #BC