Vancouver police release identities of victims in Winters Hotel fire – BC

Vancouver law enforcement have now launched the identities of two individuals who died in the hearth at the Winters Lodge in April.

Mary Garlow, 68, and Dennis Guay, 53, had been determined via DNA, and their future-of-kin have been notified, law enforcement reported.

Garlow’s niece spoke to Worldwide Information in late April, indicating she had unanswered issues about the tragedy.

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Misty Fredricks mentioned her aunt was a member of the Oneida Country in the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario, and a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Household Faculty.

She moved to British Columbia when she was 20, and lived the rest of her lifestyle in the city’s Downtown Eastide, Fredericks reported.

“It’s significant that we honour Mary Ann’s lifetime and set a deal with and a title to her … (She) was a daughter and a mother and a sister and an auntie and a survivor. She mattered. She deserved better.”

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Vancouver Fire and Rescue Providers (VFRS) thinks unattended candles had been the bring about of the hearth, which broke out on the next ground of the creating on April 11, leaving two people dead and 5 others wounded.

VFRS suggests the building’s sprinklers had been turned off and a fire look at put in location next a former fire, days previously. The building operator was below orders to have the fire suppression system serviced.

— with information from Simon Minimal