Winters Hotel fire: BC Housing exec testifies at inquest
BC Housing executive tells Vancouver Winters Hotel inquest there was no formal checklist about fire safety plans.
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BC Housing executive tells Vancouver Winters Hotel inquest there was no formal checklist about fire safety plans.
BC Housing executive tells Vancouver Winters Hotel inquest there was no formal checklist about fire safety plans.
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."
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.
Mary Ann Garlow and Dennis James Guay died in the blaze that razed the Winters Hotel in Gastown on April 11, 2022. Five people were hospitalized and more than 140 were displaced.