WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.– Four people are unaccounted for after a fire swept through the Lakeview Hotel in Williams Lake early Sunday morning.

Some of the hotel guests made desperate escapes as the fire ripped through the wooden frame building, fire Chief Dale Moon said.

"There was one lady that jumped from a third floor room. She has multiple fractures apparently," Moon said.

Although Moon said there were two deaths and three people missing, the coroner later corrected that statement, saying no bodies had been recovered and probably won't be until Monday.

Firefighters did manage to rescue a number of people, including an unconscious woman in a room on the third floor.

Betty Pickard, a local photographer, said the building was consumed by fire within minutes of the alarm being raised.

"When I got there there was smoke billowing everywhere, flames shooting out the windows, out front," she said.

Fire officials have not determined the cause of the fire.

The hotel was renovated recently by new management

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