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July 22,1984 Newsroom 985-2131

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MEMBERS OF the-lidependent Canadian Transit Union hiave been out‘on local bridges withia message of busless com-

Rescue crews get incidents calls

NORTH VANCOUVER District

firefighters

wound up with two rescue emergencies when they
responded to a single ‘alarm to Lynn Creek

Thursday afternoon.

Fire crews had pulled one
youth from a rocky chff
above Lynn Creek where he
had become trapped, when
they were called to a second

incident where two others
were in trouble
The first incident was

MARK HAMIL

reported to the North Van
district’ fire department at
235 pm. Thursday. Crews
arrived at the Twin Falls to
find a youth who had

become stuck while trying to
climb a cliff there.

The youth, who had swum
across a pond, had reached a
point on the rocks where he
could not) go forward or
back.

Firemen spent about 45
minutes getting the youth off
the rocks, before turning
him over to the RCMP, who
took the shaken, cold and
tired youth home.

While the crew was clear.
ing that incident, the second
incident came in with reports
that “‘two or three kids’’
were trapped in the water of
Lynn Creek near the suspen
sion bridge

At the scene, firemen
found two youths had been
swept into a pool arca near
the falls. One of the youths
had madc it to land but the
second was still in the water,

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minutes apart

staying afloat with the aid of
a piece of driftwood.
Firefighters rigged ropes
and harnesses and went after
the two youths Working
from the steep rocky cliffs
around the pool and from in
the water alongside the one
youth, firemen were able to
get them back to dry land
None of the three youths
involved in the incidents was
injured and emerged from

the rescues
cold

In all firefighters spent a
litthe more than two hours at
the two sites, affecting the
rescucs

The twin emergencies have
prompted firemen to remind
those attracted to such
swimming holes as Lynn
Creek to be aware of the
possible hazards before they
gO In

only tired and