Jesse Smith described the loud noise in the burning Winters Hotel in Vancouver as people were streaming out when she went back to help others and their pets escape.
“It’s wood. So, you could hear just wood burning,” she told a coroner’s inquest on Friday.
She had been in the rooming house that day in April 2022 working for a program that supported tenants with pets.
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