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VANCOUVER Three homes in South Vancouver were evacuated Thursday morning after a landslide near a construction site on Southwest Marine Drive. Firefighters and police were called to the scene shortly after 9 a.m., according to Ken Gemmill, assistant chief of operations for Vancouver Fire Rescue Service. Gemmill said the slide itself, which he described as kind of an earth collapse, happened early in the morning. Three properties on Tugboat Place - which is below the property where the slide began, closer to the bank of the Fraser River - had to be evacuated, Gemmill said. One of the lots, the whole backyard was encased in dirt and trees, he said. ....