Lightning strikes

A NORTH Vancouver apartment building at 1273) Fast
27th St. was struck by lightning during a spectacular
storm that bit tle Lower Maialand on Tuesday morning.

The Jightning struck the roof acvar a chimney at 5:15
a.m. It travelled down a drain pipe, causing wall insula-
tion to sisoulder and catch fire, said a North Vancouver
District Fire Department spokesman.

No injuries were reported.

The spokesman said there was minor damage to the

two-storey Structure.

Firefighters were at the scene for 45 minutes.

Meanwhile, Carson

Graham) secondary

was closed

Tuesdgy following a power outage resulting from the
storm. Students returned (o classes on Wednesday.

Mountains present dangers

From page 3

from Canadian Forces Base Com-
ON managed to hoist the hiker and
one member of the rescue team
who had climbed down the em-
bankment out of the area on
Sunday morning.

Peterson said’ the victim was
suffering from hypothermia.

In an earlier incident, a North
Shore Search and Rescue Team
was sent to a trail under the
Grouse Mountain Sky Ride at
about midnight on Friday night to
rescue two female hikers.

Stacy Taylor, 16, and Simon

Brink, 18, both from North Van-
couver, suffered minor injurics in
the incident.

Said Peterson, ‘*We get a lot of
tourists going up to Grouse
Mountain who don’t know about
the different terrain.

“People have to be aware. of
some of the dangers these moun-
tains present to hikers.”

He added that 25 North Shore
Search and Rescue Team iaembers
were involved in Saturday night's
rescue, while 18 were involved in
the rescue operation on Friday
night.

Rangers submit daily reports

From page 1
deal with a maximum of three
alcohol-related incidents a day.

Before the rangers started work-
ing in mid-May, North Vancouver
District Fire Department
(NVDFD) members were involved
in two swift-water rescues this
year atthe park:

@ A. 17-year-old) woman feil
from a cliff and was trapped in an
area near 30-Foot Pool.

@ A man was swept downstream
by the creek’s current and manag-
ed to grab onto the last rock be-
fore going over First Falls.

The rangers’ program costs
$30,000 and was part of 1992 ree-
ommendations by the Lynn Can-
yon Safety Task Force,

in the last 18 years, t1 people
have died in Lynn Canyon Park.

“Most victims place themselves
in a degree of jeopardy,’’. said
Calder.

Calder said the original reasons
for rescues stem from:
© curiosity;

@ lack of knowledge of the area;
@ peer pressure;
® foolhardiness
turesomeness;

® impairment.

Calder said police divers have
been hampered when attempting

and adven-

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to rescue a person by park users
who continue to dive in the same
area of the emergency.

The North Vancouver RCMP
are planning to increase their
presence in the park this year. The
police bike patrol will regularly
visit the park, there will be road
blocks and plain-clothes police
officers will work within park
boundaries.

NVD parks operations superin-
tendent Richard Boulton said the
municipality would assess ranger
effectiveness in the park in’ the
fall.

But he said that the rangers are
having a positive impact on reduc-
ing alcohol use in the park.

Currently, the rangers submit
daily reports of their activities.

Said Boulton, ‘‘We are viewing
this as a continous project.’

He said the rangers were pro-
viding new information about
park use.

Boulton said tourists getting off
buses with street shoes are en-
countering hazards in park use.

The rangers will patrol the park
every day until mid-September.

Calder said more than 500,000
people visited Lynn Canyon Park
last year.

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