By CHRIS LLOYD

Even the best planned
fires can go wrong, as these
North Vancouver District
Firefighters pictured on the
right found out Monday.

Firemen tackled the blaze
from every side of the house
but each time they knocked
out flames in one spot a fire
would break out in another
area.

And while firemen cut.

Tr started off as a routine

practice session when they
torched an old house slated
for demolition on the 1500
block Dovercourt Road in
Lynn Valley.

But through the sequence
of events that were to occur
it rapidly degenerated into a
comedy of errors.

The firemen hosed down
the fire, shut down the lines
from the hydrants, laid the
hoses on the road and began
to discuss the technical
details of the operation
they'd just completed.

It was then that an
emergency call came in fora
fire caused by a welder at
Fiberco on the waterfront.
One of the two firetrucks

sped off to deal with the fire
which had set light to a

conveyor
above.

belt, pictured

That was when the
practice fire flared up again
but when the firemen went
to hose it down ... they
found their hoses had frozen
up.

A change of nozzles and
they were back in action.
But by that time they had a
full scale roof fire on their
hands.

away at the structure, other
firefighters from the ground
sprayed up jets of water
which covered them so that
pretty soon everyone was
dripping wet.

Several of the firefighters
were wearing dress pants
which were wringing wet in
the icy weather, while even
those with waterproof suits
looked sodden.

Practicality won out over
modesty in the case of a
deputy fire chief who was
seen standing in the road in
his firehat, jacket and a pair
of bikini shorts as he
changed into a dry pair of
pants.

Within a few hours every-
one was exhausted and they

were replaced by a relief
crew who finally got the fire
out.

And even after ali that,
Chief Training officer Don
Tardiff told the News it had
been “a valuable exercise”
and that they had “enjoyed
it.”

And he even warned that
as they’d managed to save
some of the house they'd
probably set fire to it again

for a repeat exercise
Thursday.

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GIBSON

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