VANCOUVER — Two Vancouver tenants have been ordered to pay more than $500,000 following a November 2017 apartment fire that a judge ruled was “foreseeable.”
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Matthew Kirchner ruled Angela Chou created a risk of harm and fire by keeping her apartment “in a near-hoarding state” with densely packed items covering most of the floor space and stacks of possessions as deep as one metre at some points.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The fire spread to other apartments, and the court ruled Chou must also pay $56,000 to Langara Gardens for the rent lost while damaged units were repaired. Chou and a neighbour tried to put the fire out using a baby bathtub to carry water before pulling the building’s fire alarm and evacuating.
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