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the roof so he called the | tow ‘company ‘Next problem was when the tow

submerged jeep at the mouth of the Capilano River in West Van Monday. truck also got stuck and so they had to get another one. Finally,. the

‘Four-wheel driver David Meltzer decided to drive through the shallow second tow truck drove off victoriously towing the first truck, which still

‘water_off the spit near the nouth of the river Sunday and when he got had the I¢ep in tow. An amused News photographer Ellsworth Dickson
stuck he put off retrieving Jeep to the following day. But when he captured the procession on film.
returned Monday morning, about all he could make out of his Jeep was

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Garbage bag filled with gas mixture

By CHRIS LLOYD

The popcorn was
popping, e ld was
jamping and the young
Weat Vancouver girl was
leaping and juggling ‘the
flaming popcom pan.
' Fire en say she made the

'\" gémnitwon error of letting
the: oll get too hot while

‘ she was making popcorn.
‘That's what caused the
fire. As she met the

i kitchen emergency in her
ide home by

rabbing the pan, the lid
popped off and flames
phot out — hat she

A 14-year-old boy’s
experiment with tanks
of oxygen he found
near his Eagle Harbor
home Saturday ended
in tragedy when a
mixture of the gas
exploded.

Corby Fox, of 5550
Marine Drive suffered cye
damage, with burns to both
cornea, and ruptured car
drums that could result in
permanent hearing loss.

The explosion happened
when the boy sct fire to a

balloon-like explosive gas he
had made up out of a gar-
bage bag and gas from
cannisters he had found ona

B.C. Railway construction
site.

West Vancouver Police
report that he filled a large
green garbage bag with a
mixture of acetylene and
oxygen, attached a paper
weight to the bag and set fire
to it.

It is understood that legal
action may be planned
against B.C. Railway,
charging them as being
responsible for leaving the
tanks of gas in an accessible
location.

West Vancouver Police
report that there have been
several incidents in the past
four months. involving
homemade explosives such

“as pipe bombs and carbon

dioxide (CQ,) cylinders.

Parents are being asked to”

do their best in putting a stop
to what the police describe
as “these very dangerous
experiments which could
result in serious injury and
possible death.”

Staff Sergeant Frank

Aikenhead comments:
“These chemicals can be
volatile, unstable and are
extremely hazardous.”