TOXIC WASTES
Garbage
bylaw
prohibits
but the
problem
remains

By CHRIS LLOYD

~ North Shore indus-
Aries and residents were.
Tuesday outlawed from
. dumping all waste
' “other than household
. garbage onto the
' Premier Street landfill
when North Vancouver
District aldermen
approved a new restric-
tive waste bylaw.

The tandfill is the only
dump on the North Shore
and 1s used by West Van-

couver municipality and
residents as well as) both
North Vancouver Distnet
and City

However, just how local
industnes are meant to
dispose of toxic and
chemical wastes 1s teft
largely unclear since a
report by Alderman Peter

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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VAN

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| A family scurried to safety out on the street in
the early hours of Tuesday morning just moments
after a fire bomb had been hurled into the

home.

And RCMP detectives say
that had a passer-by not
acted so promptly in alerting
the family the couple and
their two children might well
have perished in the blaze
that erupted.

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WHAT A WAY TO FIND OUT his load was overheight for the anderpass
on Main Street in North Vancouver. The driver of this Mathed truck had
come off the Second Narrows Bridge Thursday afternoon and was
heading into North Vancouver when the giant tank on the back of hi

': business premises beneath their North Vancouver

A North Vancouver
District fire crew rushed to
the premises at 95 Mountain

‘Highway shortly after 1:20

a.m., managing to contain
the fire in the office area of
the auto body shop beneath

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the home ofthe family.

A couple who happened to
be walking in the area saw a
man standing directly in
front of the Master Auto
Body shop light a Molotov
cocktail and throw it into the
building at the ground floor
level.

As the office burst into
flames the couple shouted
into the building, asking if
there was anyone in there

and alerting the family living
upstairs, who heard the
shouts.

The couple also quickly
called the fire department
and police credit their quick
action with preventing the
fire from spreading.

A spokesman for North
Vancouver RCMP said:
“These alert citizens may
well have saved the lives of
four people who resided in

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the burning building. Had
they not immediately called
the fire department and
called inside the building
these people may well have
died.”

The building is owned by
Wayne Malinosky, who
operates the auto body shop,
and it is also the premises of
Precision Alignment Ser-

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truck caught on the underpass and was thrown onto the roadway. A
driver who was following him with an identical load chose to go a dil.
ferent route. (lan Smith photo)