The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a child who died on Nov. 30, 2014 following a fire in a home in Nanaimo the previous day.

He was Dominik Ambrose David Billy, aged seven, from Nanaimo.

At about 3 a.m. on Nov. 29, family members of Dominik awoke to the presence of smoke and fire in their second-storey apartment on Albert Street in Nanaimo. Other family members managed to escape the fire, but they and RCMP members were unable to reach Dominik because of the intensity of the fire. Firefighters from the Nanaimo fire department were able to rescue the boy.

He was taken immediately to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and then transferred by hovercraft to BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.

However, he died at Children’s Hospital on the morning of Nov. 30.

The BC Coroners Service, RCMP and Nanaimo Fire Department are continuing to investigate this death.

For further information, please contact:

Matt Brown
Regional Coroner, Island Region
BC Coroners Service
250 356-9133