36 -— Wednesday, October 9, 1991 — North Shore News PARK ROYAL Salutes the North Shore Firefighters 926-2215 127.E. 3rd St., NV 985-0501 . 19639 104th Ave. "Surrey 588-1821 ‘Pieased to support this “effort to Improve public awareness of fire hazards.” 986-2914 i17, East First Street, North Vancouver, BC. V7L 1B2 ". Support the. North & West Vancouver Firefighters We salute the North & West Caulteiid inilage 110-5373 Headland Dr. °° West Vancouver 925-3959 Depariments The McKenzie Family ‘North and West Vancouver 985-3454 922-1221 (24 hours) HOLLYBURN FUNERAL HOME LTD. .4807 MARINE DR., WEST VANCOUVER, BC. HIGHLAND CHEVRON SERVICE Your “Village Pump” fully supports our jocal firefighters. 3150 HIGHLAND SLVD. NORTH VANCOUVER 987-8020 Chevron - Vancouver Fire fa Proud supporters of the North & West Vanicouver _ firefighters NORTH VANCOUVER 985-3006 Prepare your plan to get out alive: Join this family fire prevention program FOR THE seventh successive year, firefighters and McDonald's restaurants have teamed. up-during - National Fire Prevention Week to bring. an important request to families throughout the vi The message is direct: “PLan lo Get Our - Ic is being communicated widely — through . “community fire departments, elementary sckools; McDonald's restaurants and the print. and broadcast media —- as a part of National Fire Prevention Week Oct..6 to 12. _ The Plan To Get Out Alive program's two ‘central elements are a family fire safety worksheet and a family fire drill at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. “We know from experience that. lives will.be saved when children and their parents are prepared - for the emergency all of us like to think can only happen to someone else,’ said. Rick Dumala, provincial fire commissioner. “They can be prepared by drawing up their own escape route for their home and carrying out their own home fire - drills. That’s what Plan To Get Our Alive is all about.” . - The family fire safety worksheet is available to children and their families through elementary schools, fire halls and McDonald’s restaurants. - Its purpose is to encourage families to draw up their evacuation plan and then to practice their. family home fire drill at thé siren signal to be broadcast simultaneously at 7 p.m. Oct. 9, on most radio and television stations across Western © Canada. Dumala is typical of fire prevention authorities who actively support the program, which was introduced in 1984. Says Dumala: “Eighty-three people died in fires in B.C. in 1983. In 1987, the number of fire deaths in: the prevince was 43 — the lowest in 41 years. That’s a 50% reduction — and while the numbers have been higher in some years since then, we know we can achieve more if we just keep working at -it. With family support for Plan To Get Out Alive we will achieve more.’ PLan.To Get Out Alive began in Edmonton when. a fire prevention inspector named Tim K&K Fire Protection Lid. Specializing in Fire Sprinkler Servicing Call 985-6285 in Support of the North and West Vancouver Fire Departments Linnudocd Siu OLD BE R= a WE RE 11am-l11pm dally WE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS iZ LR, Captain Gavin Soanes NVCFD, Cap Terry Abrams NVDFED, and:Lt.. Don Steinb: WVFED all get. together ‘at City. Firehall promote the Oct. 9, “Plan ‘To Get Out Alive” Vandenbrink came up with the*notion. that family fire drill at home — along the lines of schoo fire drills — might be a.good way to:save lives:ing the event of fire, ~ RSTn og : Nearly 99% of all fire fatalities in Canada in the home. - ee The family fire safety program came to. life whe Vandenbrink got McDonald’s involved:’ ii publicizing home family fire drills on a city-wi oo