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False alarms,

fires in forests

WEDNESDAY NIGHT?’S spectacular lightning
storm produced more than just a light show — it
provided headaches for North Shore fire depart-
ments and B.C. Forest Service crews.

North Vancouver District
crews were busiest, respon-
ding to five lightning-related
alarms in a 40 minute span.

According to fire officials,
it does not appear as though
any damage was done by the
storm, with most of the calls
resulting from” lightning
Strikes setting off fire alarm
systems.

Among structures hit by
lightning were two buildings
at Capilano College and a
residence on Windridge
Drive.

The only fire started by
lightning, on fact, was on
the slopes of Mount
Seymour, adjacent to the skt
area, where Gsteater Van
couver Water District
employees were called on to
fight two small fires started
when lighting hit trees

By MARK HAMILTON

In North Vancouver City,
the only major fire alarm
was from Lions Gate
Hospital with the alarm
again being set off by lightn-
ing.

West Vancouver Fire
department reportstwo inci-
dents of trees being squck
by lightning but more
serious problems were
reported from the slopes of
the mountains above Sunset
Beach where lightning
touched off one of 30 spot

forest. fires related to the
storm in the Vancouver
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by helicopters and a water
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