When Melanie Dry and her family battened down the hatches in anticipation of the approaching bomb cyclone on Nov. 19, the Saanich residents were most concerned about the risk of falling trees. Little did they know a danger of a different kind was on the horizon.
Woken in the early hours of Nov. 20 by the smell of smoke, Dry discovered a nearby building under construction on Quadra Street was ablaze.
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