It's believed everyone living in a single-room occupancy hotel that caught fire in Vancouver's Gastown Monday has been accounted for, officials said in an update Tuesday.
Janice Abbott, CEO of the non-profit Atira Women's Resource Society, which runs the SRO, told CTV News Vancouver she believes "all tenants are accounted for."
Firefighters described the blaze that broke out at the Winters Hotel, a four-storey Abbott Street heritage building, Monday as fast-moving and complex. Sixty firefighters were called to the scene.
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