AMAGE: FROM. ARSON ‘created fire: was considerable and-a firefighter’ was injured while battling the blaze. _ North Van City Fire Inspector Perry Manns is shown checking through the destruction as he finds the lid of a 45- 7 gallon off dram was separated: from the sides and twisted out of shape by the intense heat: (Ellsworth Dickson photo) AY FROM PAGE Al — One North Van City firefighter, Norman . Bullock, was —in- jured in the fire when trod on a bottle of solvent which had been heated | up in the fire ond squirted: in his — face. One of the slieds,, can- taining the chemicals, was built of corrugated iron and the adjacent one was timber. The blaze was so intense that On initial investigation fire inspectors were not certain in which one the fire had: __ -been started. 38-year-old When she looked -outside there were already flames coming through the roof_of . the tin shed. ‘The minute-t- opened the back door I heard an explosion,’ she said, ‘and I guess it was one Nine firemen, using a pumper and an acriel ladder, responded. to:the emergency and “although they had ex- tinguished the blaze within about half an hour they stayed until. 1:40 a.m., putting out spot fires and ensuring nothing flared up again. we _* While they were there, Several 45-galion drums were in the tin shed, along with many more smaller barrels, and fire inspectors think that each of them contained highly im- flammable liquids such as. paint thinner and contacvt glue. Heat generated in that shed was so extreme that the lid of one of the large drums had separated from the sides of the barrel and buckled up. Mrs. Betty Clark, who lives in the duplex im- mediately behind the sheds, at 123-125 East Second Street, said the first she knew of the fire was when her daughter came rushing in through her front door at about 11:35 p.m. to alert her, at the exact moment a friend dashed in from the back to tell her he had to move her car which was directly in line with the fire. another fire-was started just a block away in the same alley when a Smithrite garbage container was torched behind 237 East Second. The third call was from a man who said that a small fire had been started at his home west of Lonsdale. The man put the fire out with a garden hose and fire in- spectors say it was a minor blaze but that they consider it arson, Fire inspectors checked out the area of the sheds Thursday, along with a detective of the RCMP’s General Investigation Section which is working with the fire department to nail whoever is responsible for the spate of fires. Arson stickers were immediately nailed to the remaining structure of the sheds. The purpose of these is to make the community Ronald D. DeCamillis, 8.sc., D.M.D. Announces the Commencement of his Practice in General Dentistry with The North Vancouver Dental Group + 124 East 15th Street North Vancouver, B.C. V7L 2P9 Office Hours By Appointment rd (Including Saturdays) Telephone By Appointment 987-5221 aware of the extent of the problem. by posting every ‘fire which cannot’ be ex- plained away as an accident, . in the hope of generating public response. Anyone who has any information or_ even Dewees oo coe soe wo arson fires in same lane suspicions concerning any aspect of arson is being. encouraged to call the Arson Alert number (251-1111), where they can pass on their information or suspicions without being required to identify themselves. 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He-got info a. waiting Ford” LTD. which had ‘been stolen -in Vancouver ‘that day. and’ . was driven away by an * accomplice. oe Police . feel - that in .each ‘case the robber was an *. ‘athletic type from the way. he™: 7 operated. _ As.inthe previous holdup, . the man walked into the “bank holding a pistol, -believed to be a .38, and .jumped - straight over” the _ counter. At the time of ‘the robbery.“ were several of West Vancouver Police’s Criminal Investigation Bureau, says he began or- dering people around while waving his gun. » The man emptied the cash _from two drawers, ignoring paper money which dropped | to the floor. He opened a third drawer but found it empty and vaulted back across the counter and left without trying further drawers. During - the: holdup, several people ran out.of the bank and the robber ignored _them, without firing his gun at any time. 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