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Saturday, cloudy with
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3 - Friday, May 31, 1985 -

What’s Going On... 62

North Shore News

Entertainment ..... 61
Mailbox...........7
Real Estate........17
TV conc cece cece 60

the experts for disaster

YOUR 13-year old son
and his friend have
been hiking all day on
Grouse Mountain.

DAWN BURK')

It’s getting late and you're
trying not to worry. But
darkness falls and they’re
still not home. What do you

do?

Cail the police. The police
will call the North Shore
rescue team. All you can do
is wait. The search for your
son and his friend is in the
hands of experts. And those
experts are all volunteers.

In 1984 the rescue team
was involved in 16 opera-
tions, 15 of which were sear-
ches. In the sixteenth opera-

tion, the rescue team assisted ~

victims of the Pemberton
flood.

There were four searches
on Grouse Mountain and
searches on Seymour and the
Lions as well as Capilan
and Lynn Canyons and the
Indian River. The largest

search in terms of man-hours
was a river search for a
woman whose body was
never found. The search and
rescue team spent 120 man

hours on that search, The
average search involves
about 60 man hours and
river searches take the most
time.

The rescue team is just
one facet of the North and
West Vancouver Emergency
Program. A direct descen-
dent of the Emergency
Measures Organization, the
operation is based in the
basement of the North Van-

couver City Firehall at St.
Georges and 13th.

The difector of the pro-
gram, R.W. (Jeff) Jefford
sees to it that North Shore
emergency services are co-
ordinated and emergency
program members are train-
ed. It is up to Jefford to en-
sure the compilation and
viability of disaster plans
and the readiness of the
program’s volunteers.

Now funded jointly by the
District of North Vancouver,
the City of North Vancouver
and the District of West
Vancouver it costs about
$100,000 a year to run.
About $27,000 is provided
by the province through the
Ministry of the Environment
and the rest is provided by

Ses Rescue
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NEWS photos Stuart Davis

ROPES, HELMUTS and stretchers are just some of the equipment needed by the North MICHAEL NEARY eases a stretcher up a rock wall at Lynn Canyon during practice of the
Shore rescue team. The squad was at Lyna Creck last weekend practicing techniques for their

year-round rescue operations.

North Shore rescue team, The team practiced rapelling and stretcher lowering and raising last

weekend.