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Saves lives

Jolanda Waskito
Contributing Writer

THANKS to a cat, ovo
West Vancouver resi-
dents escaped serious
harm after fleeing their
burning home early
Monday morning.

A woman living in the
2700) block of Mathers
Avenue was awakened shordy
before 5 a.m. by the sound of
her cat scratching at the bed-
room window, West
Vancouver Fire Capt. Aime
Lehouillier said.

The cat was trying desper-
ately to escape smoke that
was quickly filling the house.

“Ir was making a lot of
noise. She woke up and saw
the smoke,” Lehouillier said.

The woman then woke

ber 26-vear old male tenant
and they beth fled the burn-
ing house.

“(The male tenant) saw
flames in the living room,”
Lehouillicr said, then ran toa
neighbor's home to phone
the fire department.

Meanwhile, a plucky
neighbor rescued one of the
woman's five cats by climbing
through a window, Two kit-
tens died in the blaze.

A crew of nine firefighters
on three pumpers arrived
shortly after 50 am. and

‘ doused the fire.

“When I got there they
had pur the fire cut and it was
smoldering, but the house is
gutted,” Lehouillier said. The
Joss is estimated ar $200,000.

The fire spread to parts of
the garage. The two occu-
parts of the house suffered
minor smoke inhalation.

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