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The Voice of Narth and West Van

House fire losses
weigh heavily

Bob Mackin
News Reporter

TWO families are struggling to
rebound from North
Vancouver’s first house fires of
2000.

Fire destroved a house at 756 East 29th St.
in North Vancouver District last Sunday night.
A dog and cat and 30 birds were killed. Sharon
Izatt_ and her sons Daniel and Shamus, nanny
Judy Gautreau and owe foreign student board-
ers were safely eva

Imoved into the
house last July from) Burnaby, but didn’t have
tenants” insurance and lost everything they
owned in the fire.

Gautreau said one of the boys was searching
under the Christmas tree with a cigarette lighter
when the tree caught fire.

“1 was putting my laundry in downstairs,
and 1 couldn't get up the stairs,” Gautreau said.
“Then all hell broke loose. E started screaming
and told him t run out the back door. The
other seudent ran with him. The other boy was
in the back room. He heard me screaming
downstairs and he got out the front door.”

Gautreau said she was overwhelmed by the
generosity of the good samaritans who gave
them shoes and clothing at the scene to k
warm. One man even gave her the coat off h
back.

Izate and Gautreau contacted property
manager Donna Pinkowski who found them a
new place to rent in Lynn Valley. They're now
seeking the community's help to acquire basic
household goods and furniture.

‘There was a small consolation: Gautreau’s
eat Lou survived,

“My cat crawled in behind the fridge. There
was just enough air there. We went bi
ple days later and it was still there. Everybody
said doen't have your hopes up high, and sure
enough there he was.”

If an help, call Pinkowski at 202-8485
or Izatt and Gautreau at 985-2419, Donations
of household goods can be drog off at
Home Hardware, 915 West Ist St. in North
Vancouver.

Meanw
woman hospital
the city are also appe

le, relatives of a North Vancouver
ized by 2000's first house fire in
ing for community help.

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SHARON Izatt (left) and Judy Gautreau returned briefly to their former East 29th Street home
five days after it was destroyed by fire Jan. 2. Izatt, her two sons and Gautreau found a new
piace to live in Lynn Vatley. However, they fost all their furniture and household items in the fire.

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warrant

A warrant was
issued on Dec. 29
for the arrest of a
North Vancouver
man charged with
the attempted
murder of his wife.

ARREST warrant issued
for Mahmoed Ghiami.

Mahmood Ghiami was
charged with  atrempred
murder by strangulation of
Massoumeh Chegina Salkori
on Oct. 22, 1999 in North
Vancouver City.

He was also charged with
assaulting his wife with a

rapon during the same
incident.

mi pleaded guiity to

ult with a weapon

geon Dec. 17, 1999 in

North Vancouver provincial
court.

He did not enter a plea to
the attempted = murder
charge.

Ghiami’s next court date
is slated for Feb. 23 for a
pre-sentencing report.

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