Volunteer. rescuers with:
the _ Emergency Measures’
Organisation got very little
‘sleep Sunday night, getting
called out twice to scour the |
bush for missing hikers.

At 9:30 p.m, a party of
about 17 set out in search of |
two youth hikers who had got’.
lost in Lynn Canyon.

» Stewart “Stanbrough, of
253 EB. 8th. St.,.N. Van., and
Greg Duce, of Victoria, both —
17, became separated from.’
| ‘three other hikers while in
the canyon area.

' Although they were near
enough to the river that they.
could hear it, they were:
unaware there was a trail.
running beside it or that they

Tenants escape —

apartment

About 100, tenants of a’
three-storey apartment block”

at 211 W. 3rd. St., N. Van.,:
were abruptly woken from’

their sleep at 4:30. a.m.

Saturday and put out onto |

the street while firemen
tackled a blaze in a suite.

‘Although they evacuated
the block as a
measure, N. Van City Fire
Department — managed con-
tain the blaze to suite 209.

’ safety |

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Jessie ricasc

of. An calls: kept } North Vane
‘cotiver oa | eg Department

~~ fire. loss.
"oa LaFrance

: apparatus * in.

“LEAD SINGER or rthe new North Shore rock group :*
young lady who plans to take Vancomver by stem this month. '

were "walking parallel to
Lillooet, Rd. ee ae

wey

‘dense bush: until | darkness,"

“going ‘south down the can-
yon, .. past. the. suspension. 7

bridge, and crossed: Centen-.
nial ‘Trail — “without: even |

Fealising it. oe

my

‘The. youths resigned”

themselves - to. spending a

miserable | “night . . the
canyon . and. to — uading
together to keep w warm, eae

‘Fortuiiately, one of ‘them |

as! ‘a:smoker ‘and ‘so.‘they. .

had matches to start:a small
fire, which .was where’ the.’
rescuers. found. them. at
around, 11:30 a.m. ea

blaze an

They: had to ‘Kick in ‘the’
door ‘of ‘the apartment to.
rescue the occupant, Michael »
Webb, who was. taken’ to.
Lions Gate Hospital, ‘suffer-
ing from smoke inhallation, |

A cigarette dropped onto a

' chesterfield is. believed to |

have caused the fire, which
resulted in considerable
smoke damage to the apart-
ment.’ a

es home around 1.a.m. and got @
They. thrashed ‘around fee -before setting ‘off on. their
next-call, which: ‘involved 15) |
Searchers, Joo de

| “been: overtaken by darkness:

oy . 89-year-old. “Mrs. Ann ones

oan died from tgmols inlalues

. fire chief Dick ‘LHallaway sums
. Up: “The fire loss, for 1977, was -
| bls : eee

The E. M. oO. ‘rescuers got

ae “couple. ‘of: hours’. sleep’

i Two men and 2 “ie had :
while ‘hiking in. the bush on
Black, Mountain, overlooking
Horseshoe Bay.

“They. were on their way
back down the mountain and.
~ had. ‘about two more miles to:
~ go. Ray Kinshela, of E.M.O.,:
who. was on both searches, |
said. the ‘terrain’ would’ be.
very, dangerous to walk over
in darkness. :

. “Ips fallen timber all-over:
' the place, bluffs, creeks and
canyons,” he said.

“Luck was with these hikers
too, who found a lean-to and
settled down to sleep | the
night in it.

The: ‘search party found

James” Melloy, . ‘Of 3346
Williams, Vancouver,» ‘and
‘John. Morton, of 2185 |
Dawson ‘Place, © ‘Burnaby, |

‘both 20, with 16-year-old
'.,Bunice Danroth,. of 10870 |
Scott Road, Surrey, at 8: 30
a.m,

“Then Kinshela went off to’
‘the E.M.O. offices...to begin
this week's work.

These: eight. fires. ‘Tepresent .
65: per cent of the year’s total

The. ‘department's 20-year-

_ chief i is. inviting tenders for it.
: early ‘this $year orien, Sc

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_. and- ‘seven others,

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