Around 100 people have been put up in temporary accommodations after a fire tore through their rental apartment complex in Coquitlam, B.C., but it is still unclear when and if they will ever be able to return. As Joel Ballard reports, some residents say they have nowhere else to go.
Around 100 people have been set up in temporary accommodations after fire tore through a rental apartment complex in Coquitlam, B.C., on Thursday morning.
Residents on Friday recalled the harrowing fire and wondered what may come next.
Zeinab Mohseni and her family lived above the unit where the fire started early Thursday morning.
She said she looked outside her window and saw “smoke from underground and it was really scary,”
Mohseni and her husband left with their children, banging on the doors of neighbours as they fled.
“I started to scream loudly, ‘Get out, get out, run, it’s a fire,'” …