11-year-old
girl dies

in NV fire
tragedy

ORIGIN OF THE TRAGEDY was in this apartment occupied by G. Wong, where fire inspector Bruce Hall is pictured while attempting to
determine the cause of the fire. (lan Smith photo)

PyycIaryEe

Lost her family in evacuation

By PAT RICH

An Il-year-old
North Vancouver girl
died in a smoke-filled
stairwell early
Saturday morning
while attempting to

escape from an
apartment building
flre.

Officuals say. Amynas

Samy. of 241 S10 West drd
Street. died trom
inhalation after: becoming
separated from her family

smoke

while trying to leave the

building

An RCMP | spokesman
said police and North
Vancouver City fire

fighters were called to an
apartment fire at LOK 310
West dd Street at about
42am

The three storey building
was cvacuated and when
police arrived the
spokesman said the girl
was reported missing

Dunng a search of the
building the girl was

located, unconscious, noo

stairwell on the west side
Samp was taken to Lions

Gate Hospital but was
pronounced dead on
arnval

Officials speculate that
when the fire alarm was
pulled in the building.
Amynas became
separated from her family
and in the confusion went

Samy

into one of the smoke filled
cormmdors
A fire department

spokesman said the fire

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-‘Chemicals)

Relocation
too costly

By CHRIS LLOYD

The Canadian .Oc-
cidental (Hooker
chlorine
manufacturing plant
may be entrenched in
the Maplewood area
for another five or 10
years, according to the
conclusions likely to be
made in a report soon
to be received by North
Vancoaver District

council.

The community hazards
task force appointed by the
council six months ago is still
completing its report and is
not expected to hand it over
to council until the end of
the month. But already there
is every indication that the

report will stop short of
recommending the
relocation of the Hooker
plant and rule out the
proposition as financially
impractical.

At one stage there were
signs that the task force
might well urge council to
work for the relocation of
the chlorine plant because of
fears of the threat its

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weather.

WEDNESDAY:
Mainly sunny.
High S5F (13€).

THURSDAY:
Mainly, sunny. clouding
over later in the day