From fires, flooding and storms to unlikely heroes and extremely rare astronomical events, CBC video journalist Gian-Paolo Mendoza recaps and shares some of his favourite photos taken overnight this past year. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC)Half a metre separated Jasmine Olson and a street light that toppled onto her car during a heavy windstorm in Vancouver in January. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC)Residents of the Strathcona neighbourhood were warned to shut their windows due to smoke from an aggressive fire burning in a print shop near East Hastings Street near Clark Drive in April. (Gian-Paolo Mendoza/CBC)The first lunar eclipse of the year saw a blood-red moon hovering over the night sky in Vancouver in late January. Adam Palmer following a shooting near Broadway and Ontario Street that claimed the life of a young boy.

Source: CBC News December 30, 2018 13:52 UTC