Neda Pessione News Today

Neda Pessione said she saw Mary Ann Garlow enter the Winters Hotel that morning, never to return, and alerted Vancouver's fire chief to the fact that people were still "trapped."

The owner of a business that was destroyed when Vancouvers Winters Hotel caught fire nearly two years ago believes lives could have been saved if the buildings fire extinguishers hadnt been empty.

Gina Vanemberg told inquest jurors that as fire crews scrambled to evacuated the Winters Hotel, a list of tenants was forgotten in the building, against protocol.

The former manager of a sister SRO says sprinklers and alarms should have been working if company policy was followed.

And what a time it’s been. Here’s what got people talking.

Residents and business owners describe terror and confusion during the fatal Vancouver SRO fire.