Residents from deadly Vancouver rooming house fire to sue housing agency and owner

The Winters Hotel at the southwest corner of Abbott and Water streets was destroyed on the morning of April 11, 2022 — three days after a smaller fire was reported and with the building’s automatic sprinkler system turned off as a result.

An internal Atira report that tracks incidents such as drug poisonings, deaths, and violence inside the buildings showed the Winters was a relatively quiet SRO and had few reports of fires or floods.

The fire department’s final report into the fatal April 11 fire found a smaller fire three days earlier had resulted in the automatic sprinkler system being turned off.

On the morning of April 11, building staff contacted a company to have the sprinklers and smoke detector serviced, the report said.

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