Frozen pipes, burst sprinkler systems and no hot water were among the problems facing Vancouver Islanders this weekend, and it closed a Nanaimo warming centre with 25 people staying there.

Nanaimo firefighters say they don’t recall so many burst pipes in buildings in a single day as Saturday.

People evacuated some Cresent View Drive apartments Sunday after the emergency alarms went off because of a burst pipe.

“A lot of water coming down through the top unit flooding on the parking lot, and there was a guy in his unit chucking down buckets of water from his window because the flooding was that bad,” said Max Kenny, a building resident.

At the former Nanaimo bakery building on Bowen Road, they’re trying to dry out the City of Nanaimo-funded warming centre following a burst sprinkler pipe in the attic Saturday night.

It forced the vulnerable to stay inside out into the cold while another plan was hatched.

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