Efforts are underway to find housing for displaced residents of a rooming hotel that has been reduced to a shell by fire in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood.
Flames broke out in the 110-year-old building before noon on Monday and the fire department said the roof of the four-storey brick structure had collapsed within hours.
Shops, restaurants and businesses were heavily damaged below the 89-room Winters Hotel on the building’s upper floors, which is overseen by Atira Property Management and provided housing for 71 residents.
Five people were treated in hospital, including one who fire Chief Karen Fry said she was told by paramedics had jumped from an upper-floor window.
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