ington won THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER wednesday r friday ° sunday GIRL ’ April 6, 1984. Newsroom 985-2131 ‘t run again:A10 Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 Price 25¢ CLOSE AS COULD BE TO BEING CRUSHED’ Residents actions aid dramatic Lions Bay rescue A LIONS BAY girl ‘nearly crushed’’ by boulders while playing Wednesday afternoon has Lions Bay residents and emergency crews to thank. ‘‘She came as close to be- ing crushed (by the boulders) as a person could: be,’’ Doug Chapman told the News Wednesday. Chapman was the first man on the scene and one of those in- strumenttal in coming to the girl’s rescue. Modestly, he gives most of the credit to another Lions ‘West Vancouver house, And he's keeping it there despite the refusal of West Vancouver municipal haul to permit it, Miyoshi, whd was less than, 50 miles from Hiroshima when MARK HAMILTO Bay resident, Vandenberg. ‘tHe (Vandenberg) really instrumental,’’ Chapman. ‘It was literally his muscle that saved her from being crushed.”’ Chapman was outside his Harry was says Still figh house, talking to friends, when he saw the girl go running underneath a bridge in Lions Bay, chasing a frisbee. He heard a series of screams that sent him and others in the area racing toward where the girl had disappeared. They found her about 30 feet below the bridge, trap- ped under five or six boulders. The girl had her legs and chest pinned by the rocks and residents feared that if ae Pe mR Set Ah teh OM spent HRI the load shifted, she would have been seriously injured. The Lions Bay residents could not pull the girl from under the rocks. Instead, they used lengths of two by four and metal bars as levers to keep the weight of the rocks off her. One rock that was par- ticularly threatening — _ the largest of them — was fi- nally rolled off the pile of rocks atop the girl by the residents in such a way that ut missed her as ut rolled way. The girl was finally pulled from beneath the rocks by a fireman who was able to wrap his arms and legs around her. While the weight of the rocks was lifted off her, the fireman was pulled out by residents using a rope looped around his shoulders. She was taken to hospital in North Van- couver for treatment. The rescue operation was carried out by about 30 res- idents of Lions Bay, Emergency Health Service ting for wv peace sign TADASHI MIYOSHI — better known as,Mike — has a sign on the front lawn of his (ambulance) members and members of the West Van- couver and Lions Bay fire departments. ‘*There was a lot of really good co-operation by everyone involved,’’ said Chapman, still shaken by the rescue when he talked to the News. He was not shaken so much that he didn’t have a message for other Lions Bay children, however. ‘*Don’t,’” Chapman said, ‘‘play by the river.’ NEWS photo lan Gmith the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, is determined to keep the sign up as his com- mittment to ending the nuclear arms race. More in a future issue if the News.