und set up for fire victims om page 1 He also saw a boy in the backyard with the y dog and a girl in the front with her dmother. “The grandmother wanted to go back into Meehe house to ger the bird,” said Brown, “We Begold her not to.” He also told the boy stranded in the back- Rrard to stay put. The boy disregarded Brown’s medvice though and ran through the burning Brouse to join his sister and grandmother out front. ~ He was lucky and got through. : As for the dog, Brown and another man Boisted it over the fence to safety. mm “It was a heavy puppy, it weighed over 50 pounds,” said Brown. Meanwhile off-duty North Vancouver District firefighter Bob Harrison was at nearby dgemont Village when he noticed the smoke. “I could tell from the smoke there was a mest) re fire of some kind,” said Harrison. He ran towards the smoke and arrived at the scene before his colleagues from the fire adepartment. After making sure no one was Icft inside the house, Harrison borrowed a crescent the house. Brian Platts who lives across the street from the charred house tried calling the fire depart- ment. “T guess everyone was on it (9-1-1) because I couldn't get through,” said Platts, whe could feel the heat from the blaze on his side of the street, “They put me on hold.” North Vancouver District Fire Chiet’ Gary Calder said the fire appears to have started in the basement and engulfed the main floor of the home by the time firefighters arrived. One of the firetighters fighting the blaze nearly fell through the floor of the structure as it partially collapsed beneath him, said Calder. Although the house is a relatively small sin- gle-family residence, 12 firefighters and ro fire engines were stil hard at work putting it out more than nwo hours after it started short- ly after 3 p.m. As a throng of 30 spectators gathered to watch the spectacle, the grandmother and the children in her charge awaited the arrival of the children’s parents at a neighbor's home. 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