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A 25-year-old North
Vancouver man who was
injured Wednesday when
he slipped from a tree,
struck rock and landed in
a Lynn Creek pool may
have been encouraged to
jump, according to a per-
son who witnessed the
rescue operation.

@ suspected broken wrist,
multiple fractures to one leg
and chest and pelvis injuries.

Ramsay said people jump
every day from cliffs in the
park into the pools and adds it
is ‘ta very dangerous activity.”’

**In some cases they're on a
cliff and can’t even see the
water,”’ he said.

‘Wright, who arrived at the
scene shortly after the accident,
said there .. a big problem with
peopie drinking and taking
drugs such as hashish and
marijuana in the park.

ALCOHOL PROBLEM

He predicts more accidents
will happen if nothing is done
to contro! alcohol and drug use
in the park.

“The amount of drinking
that goes on there is tremen-
dous,’’ Wright told the News.
“That type of accident is going
to happen again. The amount
of drinking is incredible...it’s
the alcohol down there that is
causing the problem."

He added that others in the
crowd told him Fletcher was
talked into jumping from the
tree.

“He was definitely coaxed
up there. The crowd, from
what | understand, was
shouting ‘Ya, go for it’,”’ said
Wright.

He added that after Fletcher
was taken away, another per-
son climbed to the rock cliff
where Fletcher injured himself
and jumped into the pool.

A North Vancouver RCMP
spokesman said the detachment
does as much patrolling of
Lynn Canyon Park as it can
but admitted that some areas
are tough to get to.

By SURJ RATTAN
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of 7 And John Wright said he
4 believes most Lynn Canyon
Park accidents involving people
7 . diving from rock cliffs at the
fad oa park's popular swimming holes

‘ are alcohol related.

MULTIPLE INJURIES

; Scott Fletcher suffered
ats ‘i multiple injuries and is listed in
: stable condition in the intensive
care unit of Lions Gate Hospi-
tal after he either slipped or
miscalculated an intended jump
from a tree into a Lynn
Canyon Park pool.

North Vancouver District
Fire Department Chief Bruce
Ramsay said Fletcher climbed
up a rock bluff at an area
known as 30-Foot Pool Wed-
nesday afternoon and proceed-
ed to climb three-quarters the
way up a tree. The tree is
located about 35 feet above a
rock overhang.

“He tried to dive from the
tree over the rock outcrop and
for some reason, whether he

‘STUPIDITY’ CITED

He added that most of the
accidents in the park are the
result of ‘‘stupidity’’ rather
than being alcohol related.

“People who go down there
do stupid things. Most of them
(accidents) are stupidity-
related. If a guy’s going to
slipped or misjudged the dive, ! : : : climb 40 or 50 feet up a tree
he hit the reck and then fell in- ‘ nai ones — and slips and hits a rock, that
to the pool.’” Ramsay said.) NORTH VANCOUVER District firefighters and B.C. Ambulance Service paramed- fh", Stupidity. especially if
Fe ets eee oank ’ ies tend to North Vancouver resident Scott Fletcher Wednesday at Lynn Canyon the oe Seaman whe aked said

Ramsay, who was in the Park. Fletcher suffered multiple injuries when he slipped from a tree, bit a rock cliff to be identified.
park along with a fire depart- and landed in a poo! of water.

He said most of the drinking

Bs . ment crew investigating an ac-
con 7 cident at 90-Foot Pool, said a in the park takes place at
, tourist alerted him. Ramsay’s ing together with paramedics tended to Fletcher's injuries Fletcher suffered head inju- night, adding that ‘it's a tradi-
ri, ! a — = crew responded. from the B.C. Ambulance Ser- and then carried him out of the ries including a suspected skull tional party place for the
a, : The fire department, work- vice in North Vancouver, at- fracture and severe lacerations, young people.”’

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