FALSE FIRE ALARMS

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North Vancouver School
Board is not pleased about
false fire alarms from
schools — there were 23 of
them during January and
February alone. And neither
are they pleased by District
Fire Chief Bob McDonald
airing the problem to the
press rather than discussing
the matter with them.

Chief Dick Hallaway, of
North Vancouver City Fire
Department, the board was
told Tuesday, preserved
much better direct com-
munication.

Of the 23 false alarms
during January and February
eight by day and one by
night were suspected as
being pranks. Other causes
were system malfunction —
3, student accidents — 5,
staff or contractor accidents
—~ 5 and one case of a power
surge.

' The board discussed a
recent article in the North
Shore News which, for the
third time in as many
months, raised the question
of false fire alarms in
schools.

These articles, they felt,
may have left the impression
with trustees and the public
that the problem is out of
control and that no one is
concerned or is working on a
solution.

In fact, the board said, it
has a sound policy worked
out with City and District
fire authorities and was
planning a May meeting ‘with
the fire services. This
meeting has now been
moved up to very late March
or very carly April.

Both fire chiefs will be
invited to that meeting.

But fire chief McDonald
says that although he per-

sonally has not attended
meetings with the school
board — because of
emergencies occurring
which have required his
supervision — his staff has
kept him in constant touch.

He stresses that he is
making no criticism of the
schools maintenance staff in
dealing with alarm problems
and malfunctions.

However, he says that his
concerns about malicious
alarms — which the January
and February figures show as
being the highest single
cause of false alarms — have
not changed.

“I am criticising myself as
much as the system for not
being capable of coping with
the malicious false alarms,”
he says.

And he stresses: “We've
got to establish something to
deal with that problem.”

Doctors back LGH nurses

The North Shore Medical -
Society has unanimously
supported the registered
nurses at Lions Gate
Hospital in their current
contract negotiations.

The society, at a meeting
on Tuesday where many
North Shore doctors were in

attendance, voted to support
the nurses in their demands
to the Health Labour
Relations Association
(HLRA).

Contract talks between
the nurses and the HLRA
have been continuing, with a
mediator in attendance,

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