cowers Ss
Studios.
And West Van ‘council's

go-ahead was itself.an 1ith

“ “Hour suspense: drama, which
‘prevented ‘millions of movie
dollars leaving the province.

“Our backs were up

against the wall,” said Justis
Green, production manager,
one of three Los Angeles
movie men who sat anxiously

- through’ the ‘meeting while
aldermen agreed to allow
Huron Productions, Inc., to
build .a| temporary sound

‘ Stage at the studios."

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“ANGRY, shaken and ‘scared, Red Hot Video manager Ted Emery stands at t the rean of the North Vancouver store
where flrebombers struck early Monday.

Firebombing at porn store

RED HOT Video store manager Ted Emery
is thanking his lucky stars he is still alive.

Had he been sleeping in
the apartment at the back of
! +. i the store as he often does, he
feels certain ho would have
oa" been burned to death in the
4 ' i firebombing carly Monday
‘ morning of the business
which sells and rents
videotapes of pornographic
movies.
The firebombers struck at

Reaching Every Door on the North Shore

the rear of the store in

the 1000 block Marine, at
1:30 a.m., pouring gasoline
down the outside wall of the

remises, smashing a

throom window, throwing
in a gas-filled container and
then setting light to the wall.

The fire was confined to
the exterior wall and the
bathroom when crews from

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both North Vancouver fire
departments arrived there
shortly after - but only
because the bathroom door
was firmly shut.

' Emery said the door has
double locks on it,
separating the store

bathroom from the apart-
ment he uses there. He only
locks it when he is not on the
premises. |

“It was just incredibly for-
tunate I wasn't here,” he told
the News, If I had been here,
the bathroom door would
have been open and this stuff
(the gasoline). would have
flowed into the suite and J

would probably ‘havo been
barbequed.” .
A group calling itself the.
Wimmin's Fire Brigade.
claimed responsibility for
the firebombing, as well as
the two others the same
night at Red Hot Video
stores at Surrey, which burn-
ed down a total of three
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WEDNESDAY |
Sunny in the morning
clouding over in
the afternoon
THURSDAY
Cloudy with showers