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Bob Mackin

News Reporter binackin@nsnews.com

SO far, so good.

No data panic in the year zero.

The North Shore slipped out of 1999 and in to Y2K, surviving with
the rest of the world. Fears that computers would automaticauy re-set to
1900 and malfunction at the stroke of midnight did not materialize.

Ross Peterson of the North and West Vancouver Emergency Program
said not a single caller phoned the North Shore ¥2K information hotline
Friday night.

“We were ready for a large number of calls trom the public should the
media start commenting about problems around the world,” Peterson
said. “Of course with nothing but no problems being recorded, we had
no calls from the public.

“When the rollover occurred here and the lights staved on and peo-
ple still had a dial tone, there was obviously some ation. The public
interest turned to celebration.”

Peterson, his staff, municipal workers, police, fire and ambulance
workers from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove were on standby for any
problems. But as midnight came and went over the South Pacific, Russia
and western Europe, it was apparent that nuclear missiles, power out-
ages, riots and looting were not in the cards.

See Emergency page 3

Homes burn in
North Vancouver

Pets perish in Jan. 2 blaze

Bob Mackin
News Reporter
THE first weekend of 2000 kept firefighters in

both North Vancouvers busy.

It took fess than tour hours for North Vancouver City firefighters to
be pressed into action for the first fire of 2000. They responded at 3:50
am. to a fire in a three-storey wood frame residential building in the
§00-block of East 4th Street. Chief Dave Burgess would not disclose
the exact address, citing the provincial privacy act.

The entire third floor was ablaze, but fire crews kept it from spread-
ing to the second or first floors and surrounding structures.

Two people were taken by ambulance to Lions Gate Hospital. One
was rreated and released that morning. Burgess said arson is not sus-

See Arson page 3

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near a dry Christmas tree caused the fire, according to Chief Brian Stegavig.

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