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WV backs Variety

WEST VANCOUVER
Mayor Derrick Humphreys
has proclaimed February 19 -
25 Variety Club Week in
West Vancouver.

The 1984 Variety Club
Telethon will be broadcast
live through B.C. for 22
hours starting at 8 p.m.

Saturday, February 25.

The telethon is seeking to
raise money for three specific
projects currently underway,
the new Children’s Variety
Research Centre, the Electro-
Limb Program, to supply ar-
tificial limbs to B.C. children
and the Ronald McDonald
House.

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NORTH VAN City fire inspectors. Perry Manns and Gavin Soames inspect the extensive heat and smoke damage done to a
Keith Road apartment when a grow light dropped onto a chesterfield and started a fire. See story at right for details.

Light falls,

| Starts fire

A GROW LIGHT that dropped onto a couch is

believed to have been the cause of a fire Sunday

that extensively damaged a suite in a Keith Road

apartment building.

According to inspector”

Dave Burgess the lamp,
which was attached to a ceil-
ing hook by a spring clamp,
either fell of its own accord
or short circuited.

The resulting fire
destroyed the couch, and
damaged a nearby sewing
table and chest. The _ re-
mainder of the suite suffered
heavy smoke and heat
damage, however.

The heat at one point was
so intense, it caused the win-

. dows of the apartment to ex-

plode. Walls were covered
with soot and glass and
plastic items throughout the
apartment either cracked,
melted or broke because of
the heat.

The suite’s occupant was
not home at the time of the

fire.

Burgess said it was only the
quick action of the tenants of
the apartment building,
located at 161 East Keith,
tharprevented the fire from
spreading -beyond the suite.

“‘When they first smelled
smoke, they pulled the alarm
and telephoned the fire
department right away,’’
Burgess said.

By the time the fire depart-
ment arrived, the tenants had
been evacuated and the fire
located.

The extra two or three
minutes the fire department
gained by the-early alarm,
Burgess said, helped prevent
the fire from spreading.

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