Unhoused people displaced following fire at Labrador Inn
Unhoused people displaced following fire at Labrador Inn

By Derek Montague, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent An interior fire at the Labrador Inn in Happy Valley-Goose Bay has left hotel management and the provincial government looking to house  around 20 people for at least one night in the dead of winter. At 10:35 a.m. Happy Valley-Goose Bay firefighters responded to a call  at the Inn and arrived within four minutes. According to town Fire  Chief Brad Butler, the fire damaged a couple of bathrooms and the  hotel’s kitchen area but not the residential area. “Nobody was injured;  it was a quick knock-down by the fire department,” Butler said. “[The  fire] was in behind walls. We had to rip walls and ceiling out,” he  said, adding his firefighters “did a good job, and [the fire] didn’t  extend too

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