Downtown Eastside resident's death in electrical room fire underscores dire need for housing, community

“He was a charmer.”

That’s how Rhonda Stephens remembers her friend, Dino Bundy, a person who liked to help others, living on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

To his friends, Bundy was also known as Boomer.

“If you took a walk in the Downtown Eastside on Hastings, you would see Boomer … charming the pants off anyone he talked to — man, woman, child. He was that person.”

Dino Bundy died on April 29, 2023. (Submitted by Rhonda Stephens)

Bundy, 60, died on April 29 when the electrical room he was living in caught fire. 

Vancouver Fire Rescue told CBC News they were called to the 400 block of Dunlevy Avenue at 9:20 p.m.

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