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the concrete barrier when
he was fatality injured by

killed

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iV firefighter

Death
dodged in
WV inferno

BY CATHERINE SARR
Contributing Writer

FIGHTING fires
may be all in a day’s
work for some, but
one West Vancouver
firefighter recently
found out that you
can never be too pre-
pared or too careful.
Jeff Bush, 25, is lucky to
be alive afler receiving two
severe jolts of electricity that
left him lying unconscious in
a burning suite at the site of a
recent West Vancouver spart-

ment fire: ;
i The July 3. Park Royal

‘Towers fire, reportedly-start- .

“ed: by ,two, youths throwing
fourth

“Twelve ambu-
dispatched

:Vancouver.
- lances: were also,
to’ the scene to.as
fire units already present.

“. Bush, a six year member
of. the force, was among. the .

“first on the scene.”
“I remember.. when we
arrived; going to the back of

the bitilding and [could see .
- the flames and smoke coming
‘from the invelved suite.

“T was ‘on ‘the rescue truck

that day and we were joined
by the first. engine crew. and -
- we, went to the, fourth: floer.
: As I walked down the hail-).”
way: I could see the smoke!
coming from the suite. I said:
to the guys:'I got it here’ and |
S! [-went to the side of the door
and looked in| the peephale :
_-and I could see that it was all
“Orange inside.”
Live wires hanging from’

the ceiling of the smoke-filled

-suite touched _Bush’s helmet:

sending several volts of elec-
tricity through his body.

“It was the most painful
thing I have ever. felt in my
life: 1 remember 1, couldn't
move and’as’ the power was

=, going through me I remember
thinking about my: friends and»
: family and. thinking I was

going to die.

“f saw several bright lights :

ist’ the six:

“duty
towards his job, Bush said, “It

‘released from hospital... ,

ne

Photo submitted

WEST Vancouver firefighter Jeff Bush received two

severe jolts of electricity in

and I remember everything
starting to go black. 1 kind of
said to. myself inside “hurry
up and: die cause this hurts
like hell’.

A second: electric shock ©

Slammed his body tothe floor,
leaving him‘unconscious and”

temporarily * paralyzed.

“Bush's ‘fellow firefighters

dragged him to'safety..
When’ asked -about’ the
a ‘firefighter feels.

is part-of my job (to fight
fires). ‘A lot of people just

‘think we sit uround and stuff

but when we do go to work it.
is very dangerous, We're not

7 supposed to get hurt but when -
we're helping somebody the
“risks aré’ always there.”

“Bush has. since been:

He is still undergoing tests’ "
to determine the extent of his
injuries and is uncertain as to

whether he will; ibe. able to

recover fully. ~ ;
~ Currently, he/ has lost all
feeling in his toes and suffers
from severe back pain.”
Doctors . are. keeping a

‘close watch on his right leg’

a West Vancouver tire.

“Sparky” and “Jolt.”
While.no one is dismiss-
ing .the seriousness of this
incident,
being happily amused at his

“new names.

SIs nice. 10. be alive to
hear (thes jokes); it
means..that” I’m going to be

OK." |

and -are unsure as’ to- what ~: &

‘kind of permanent neurologi-

cal damage. there will be.
Said Bush, “I'm ‘glad the -
temporary blindness went
away and it's nice that 1 can
move, and. feel . my. legs

again.” / :

While. Bush is still ¢ a few
months away from’ returning‘

-to work, fellow colleagues’ -

have jokingly nicknamed him

Bush admits to.

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