Five people were hospitalized and dozens more were displaced after a fire tore through a mixed-use building in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood Monday, damaging much-needed units of low-income housing.
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SAD 😪
Developers are salivating.
This is tragic, yet not surprising, this entire area has been crying out for help for years.
So weird a fire in canada and new York wow!!!!
I will be interested to fund out what building is put up next…mmm historic site…???get it?
The same owners own the Colonial Hotel at 122 Water Street. Slumlords.
the owners are the Eastindians. The rest you’ll figure out considering the price of the land
I live next door and hear the fire alarms going off at the middle of the three SROs almost every day. I don’t see anyone leave and half the emergency lights don’t turn on
@Geoffrey Abubakary I’m in a BC Housing building and it’s the same. False alarms at least a few times a month. Junkies in the stairwells go out the fire doors, causing the alarm to go off. Only a handful of times in 10 years was there actually smoke. Either from a dirty oven, or someone’s bed smoldering from a cigarette. If it doesn’t turn off after 15 minutes, it’s time to leave. Fire department usually turns out off within 10 to 15 minutes.
Wow
I’m guessing a junkie nodded off with a cigarette in its paw.
One of Putin’s rockets got caught up in the jetstream.
😂😂😂
really???
This is tragic, yet not surprising, this entire area has been crying out for help for years.
So weird a fire in canada and new York wow!!!!
Well seems like someone forgot they had a cigarette in their hands or a stove top burning
Thoughts and prayers for the animals.
sounds like that developer finally got his new plot of land for that 50 story behemoth
How sad… I’m just glad no one died…. It must have been so scary.
“Historic Building” is just another term “Building That Should Be Condemned”. This is what the city gets for limiting the height of buildings and making difficult to modernize structures!
Someone definitely nodded out with a smoke going on the bed
Ran the Metropole on Abbot St. around the corner. guys would pass out (alcohol; pot; worse( with something on the stove. MOST of these buildings have been upgrade with all kind of govt. grants over the decades. But stupidity? Hard to wipe out. Wtf is the address of this building.?? I would know it very well.
Once you own nothing and are happy, you too can live in a place like this.
Were they wearing their mask?
One of Supportive House, I guess. Unfortunately, it is impossible to serve this kind of facilities properly. Residents are constantly destroying fire alarm devices. Very sad. But not surprised