Fraser-Smith struggled with addictions and was known to use the substance “down,” Baxter said. The slang term is typically used to describe street drugs that contain fentanyl and other opioids.

She said he often used a torch-style lighter and had previously fallen unconscious after consuming drugs, causing burns on her mattress and elsewhere.

The apartment contained numerous aerosol cans, butane, propane and a jerry can filled with gasoline, which could have resulted in an explosion that other tenants reported hearing at the time of the fire, Baxter said

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Baxter said Manitoba Housing could be seeking to fine her as much as $25,000 in connection with the fire. She has been evicted from her apartment and has “lost everything.”

She said she repeatedly warned housing officials about safety concerns in the building and feels she is being treated unfairly.

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So someone she knows has passed out and burned things before passes out with a lit blow torch using drugs in her apartment, killing himself and putting the lives of several others In danger, not to mention causing hundreds of thousands in damages … and she’s the victim whose being treated unfairly because they might try to offset a fractional amount of the real monetary damages he caused? 

And of course, the free press is all too willing to paint her as the victim and bring up how the system is to blame. No one is ever responsible for their own shitty actions and behaviour, it’s everyone else’s fault. Delusional attitude from this person and reporting from the WFP per usual. 

Drug use cited in fatal Winnipeg apartment fire