Winters Hotel Fire: BC Inquest Told of Chained Door, ‘No Way Out’ From Deadly Blaze

Winters Hotel Fire: BC Inquest Told of Chained Door, ‘No Way Out’ From Deadly Blaze
A police officer sits in a vehicle outside of the Winters Hotel that was destroyed by fire in Vancouver on April 12, 2022. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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A coroner’s inquest has been told that a Vancouver rooming house where a fire killed two people in 2022 had a chained door, as relatives testified about the devastating impact of the blaze.

The two-week inquest into the deaths of Mary Ann Garlow and Dennis Guay began with family members describing their loss in the fire that gutted the Winters Hotel in the Downtown Eastside.