Five People in Hospital After Fire in Residential Building in Vancouver: Chief

Five People in Hospital After Fire in Residential Building in Vancouver: Chief
A firefighter on a ladder truck directs water on a four-alarm fire burning at a single room occupancy hotel in Vancouver, April 11, 2022. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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Five people were taken to hospital and officials were trying to account for everyone who lived in a building that caught fire Monday in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood.

Officials didn’t know the status of all the residents of the four-storey building and they were looking for “upwards of a handful,” said fire Chief Karen Fry, adding people could have been out or scattered after fleeing the flames.