stationing
desired in
Seymour

By Martin Millerchip

Contributing Writer

A North Vancouver
District candidate for
council is asking why
an ambulance should
not be stationed east of
the Seymour River to
serve the growing pop-
ulation of Seymour and
Deep Cove.

“Putting an ambulance
east of Seymour could save
lives by speeding response
times,” said Paul Turner.

“Recovery rates from
stroke and cardiac arrest are
related to speed of trearment
and during an earthquake
Seymour residents could be
isolated if bridges are down.

Stationing an ambulance
there will guarantee ambu-
lance service there during
disasters.”

Turner suggests that there

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District
Community Safety ‘tire
chief) Brian Stegavig con
firms Firehall #4 does have
the capacity to warage an
ambulance.

“When it was built we
asked the B.C. Ambulance
Service if they would like to
go in,

“Living arrangements
would have to be worked
out, but there is room. for
extra peuple and extra vehi-
cles.”

Adds Fire Chief Gary
Calder, “The station exists, it
has the room and there has
been some sort of informal
overture.

“The RCMP have a com-
munity policing office here
so we already have another
outside agency in the sta-
tion.”
~ Stegavig says district fire
services has also offered the
ambulance service space in
the Lynanmour fire station on
Mountain Highway.

But ambulance service
Unit Chief Tim Jones said

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ume, “Ror geographical
tike the fire services ”

“An ambiilance out there
iFirehall ts does not
address the Sevineur area
properiy.

“The cali Galume doesn't
warrant patting it into: the
Cove. The call volume as
claser to Berkley.

“Tt has better access to
the higher volume areas
while maintaining a good
response dine,”

Janes said the present
response time for castern
Seymour is under seven min:
utes and under 10) minutes
for advanced life support.

Response time would
drop to ender five minutes
with a Seymour-stationed
ambulance.

Jones said the Seymour
population has merited its
own ambulance station for
five or six years.

He says he was “tasked
with and proceeding with
properties ins the Seymour
area” until the six-month
spending freeze imposed by
the NDP government. in
June this year.

Jones said there is now a

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prongneral ostunaard for
ambulanee stations

“Weohave to hase desis
nated stanons with) prope:
have and proper crews”

One way the The h.¢
Ambulance Service has dealt
with capitalization casts in
recent years is to tease space
from a contractor who builds
the station,

Jones said thar before the
treeze there might have been
an ambulance station in
Seymour in “less than a
year.”

Right now he can only say
he is “meeting with the
North Shore Health Board.”

Turner said he would like
to see the debate reach the
public arena,

“Building extra garages
when we have available
spaces doesn't seem to be a
good use of government
money when times are
tight.”

Heywood

Vieuntain hikes
turn scary for 4

‘THE North Shore
Rescue Team (NSRT)
was called out Nov. 4
to search for two hik-
ers reported overdue
on Grouse Mountain,

Michael ‘Hastin and Wendy
Pemberton had hiked ta: the
top of Grouse in the morning
to find snaw for skiing. They
became lostas they descended
Dam Moumain, a peak to the
west of Grouse,

The rescue team was
called in at 4 pan,

The searea . s made diff-
cult by tough terrain and poor
weather, The two were found
at 3:25 a.m., slightly injured
and mildly hypothermic.

Pemberton and Taslin

Doug.
MacKay-Dunn

were walked Out to safety after
they were given warm drinks
and dry clothing.

The search involved 22
NSRT volunteers, according
tu search manager Allan
MeMordie.

On Oct. 26 two. hikers
were reported missing on
Mount Seymour. The NSRT
was called in at 3:15 am.
Fight team members inidially
responded, but by 7:30 p.m.
no contact bad been made.

Voice contact was made at
10:35 a.m. with Mike Brown,
22, of North Vancouver and
Nick Simmons, 22. The pvo
were eventually found wet,
hungry and cold at Suicide
Bhutts,

—~ By Michael Becker

Barb
MacLellan