N.B. community devastated by the deaths of two unhoused people in tent fire – New Brunswick [Video]

Community members in Saint John, N.B., say they are devastated after two people died in a tent fire at a homeless encampment on Monday — the second and third unhoused people to be killed by fire this year in the same area.

Johanne McCullough, director of Street Team Saint John, said Tuesday that members of her organization and those living in tents are heartbroken and shaken by the recent deaths of two “lovely” people.

“These people had dreams and hopes and aspirations, and they were working on bettering themselves and this cut all that short,” said McCullough, whose group provides food and other basic necessities to unhoused people in the city.

“They had plans, and I mean that literally,” she said. “They were planning on moving out of town tomorrow. I have a pile of supplies at my house for them because they were going to be travelling together to …