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“SO LONG, GUYS”, waves chief flre prevention officer George Tyson as he leaves North Van City firehall, after

working there for 30 years. Wishing him luck are fire chief Dick Haflaway on the right and deputy chief Ratph
Meldram in the centre. (Terry Peters photo)

By CHRIS LLOYD

Until last Friday,
George Tyson had
mever known the ex-
perience of waking up.
and feeling that he did
not want to go to work
at North Vancouver

City Fire Department.

But Friday saw ‘the
beginning of a new trend in
his life as he mulled over the
idea of not having to get up
quite so early if he felt like it
once in a while. He was
already becoming used to
the idea that he might well
get to enjoy not having to go
to work as chief fire
prevention officer in the hall
where he had worked for 30
years. — a

“I’ve enjoyed the job and
now I’m going to enjoy my
retirement,”. he says, ex-
plaining his attitude towards
leaving his job.

The previous night he had
said his goodbyes to the fire
department and his City

employers at a dinner held in
his honor, handing over his
job to Deputy Chief Larry
Barker, the Vformer
lieutenant, Tyson had
worked with in recent years.
He thought of how the job
would change and expand
under Barker's command, as

-he reflected on the growth

he'd seen since joining the
department in 1950 the same
day that two remaining staff,
Chief Dick Hallaway and
Captain Claude Dom-
phousse, also started there.

DEMANDING

Over the years Tyson has
seen the requirements and
standards of the firemen’s
work steadily imcrease as
they have kept abreast with
technology and the growth
of North Van.

“We never really received
any training and knew
anything in those days,” he
recalls. “People here know
more in a month on the job

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