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both’ fire ‘department. and.
hospital spokesmen said

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everybody involved did ‘an.

excellent job of controlling.

the situation. .
A North Vancouver: City

Fire Department spokesman
’ said that fire fighters: were

a.m. to deal wi with'a'fire in tl the

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four ‘bedroom ward.- : .
‘All patients

in the. room
and on . that floor... were
evacuated to another floor.
while ‘firemen brought the
‘blaze under control.

The.spokesman said that
extensive damage was
caused to the room and the
fire is’ tow under = in-
seatigation by” the fire

othe

maryellous job, a: réally.
excellent job of evacuating
the'whole floor:” he said,

“In fact .everybody in-
volved did an excellent job.”

Firemen left the scene at
6:40 a.m.

A spokesman for the
hospital said that there were

‘patients in the room when

the fire:broke out

CLOWNS WERE NUMEROUS at the big Folkfest Parade on Saturday morning. These are some of the goofy faces of the North Van Lions Club

‘clowns just before the parade started. (lan Smith photo)

“The hospital staff did a

|The. floor. affected: by: the

fire holds 32 ‘patients - 1

mainly surgical. and or- By PAT RICH
thopaedic, but the.
spokesman said.she was not.
sure. whether all the beds:

were being used at the time
of the fire,

She said that she believed
the fire began i in one “of the
closets” i in the room.

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Vancouver

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‘the

Neighbors are also
fighting to stop the proposed
development .on a service lot
which is 20 feet wide and 650
feet long.

“The municipality made a
major ‘boo-boo’ in not
putting the land up for sale
and the onus is on them to
get the mess cleared up,”
says Keith Bower who lives
in the area.

The controversy over the
lot began carly this year
when Robert Cyrrie applied
for a building Agermit to
construct a house on the lot,
which is located between
Summit Avenue and
Overstone Drive.

The application called for
the construction of a house

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WEDNESDAY
Mainly sunny with
occasional cloud.

THURSDAY,
Little Chango.

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