Category: Fires

Calm under fire

Fire at the Continental Hotel Vancouver 1982
November 2nd 1982 — The people staying at the Continental Hotel in Vancouver were evacuted when the fire started but this man was overlooked. He was in great danger but he remained calm until fireman got to his room with oxygen masks and led him down the hallway and stairs to the outside. This picture was taken for the Vancouver Province newspaper but wasn’t published. I think the editors took his calmness as a sign he wasn’t in danger. He was.