Residents in care home blaze had ‘no chance’

Investigators were trying to pick through the icy rubble of a charred seniors’ facility in Quebec to try to identify more victims of a fire that killed at least five and left about 30 missing.

The search and a probe into the cause of the fire are now hampered by up to a foot of ice covering what’s left, after water used to douse the fire froze.

The home for the elderly now resembles a macabre frozen palace, with sheets of ice and thick icicles covering the destroyed structure.