Bruno Bélanger woke up Jan. 23, 2014 to the news of a fire in town that would upend the lives of nearly everyone in L’Isle-Verte, Que., located 200 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
“We rushed over to see what was going on,” recalled Bélanger.
He was going to check on his aunt, who was living in Résidence du Havre, a private seniors’ home that housed just over 50 people, located in the heart of the community of 1,500.
That morning she died alongside 31 other people in the three-storey section of the building that had a partial sprinkler system. Half of the victims were
