By Brieanna Charlebois THE CANADIAN PRESS Vancouver resident Robert Ford was heading to a yoga class Sunday morning when he smelled an odour he likened to “semi-burnt fuel.” As a member of council at his Kitsilano apartment building, he said he decided to check the boiler room, but it smelled fine. “I was expecting something in there, so that was strange. I scratched my head and I went to the front door, which is right across from the beach, and it was 10 times more powerful outside,” he said. He immediately began searching online for an explanation but didn’t find any answers until almost four hours later. “I’m just kind of perplexed at how we can have such a nasty event with no public information hardly,” he said. It was one…