Is your
work area
fire-safe?

HOT TIPS

North Vancouver
District Fire Department

OUR JOBS all carry many
responsibilities. One of them is
making sure your work area is
fire-safe for both you and your
co-workers. The District of North
Vancouver Fire Depariment sug-
gests the following checklist to en-
sure your workplace is sete.

© Are all electrical appliances in
good condition, work properly, no
frayed cords?

* Are papers, trash and other
combustibles stored away from
heat sources or properly disposed
of?

© Are smoking and no smoking
areas clearly fabelled? In the
smoking areas, is an adequate
number of deep ashtrays provided
for cigarette disposal?

e Are flammable liquids stored
in metal containers with tight-fit-
ting lids especially designed for
flammable liquid storage?

* Are adequate electrical recep-
tacles provided so that overloaded
circuits are avoided?

© Does your place of employ-
ment have an emergency fire
escape procedure that is period-
ically reviewed and practised by
all employees?

e Are hallways kept clear of
trash or furnishings that could
block an exitway in an emergen-
cy?

e Are appropriate fire extin-
guishers easily accessible to all
employees in case 2 fire occurs?

© Are the fire extinguishers reg-
ularly inspected and maintained?
Do all employees receive instruc-
tion on the proper operation of a
fire extinguisher?

For further information, con-
tact the District of North Van-
couver non-emergency phone
number at 980-7575 or your local
fire department.

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HOME & GARDEN

Raccoons ravage garden

From page 1$

Harry Edginton in Ottawa
wrote asking just what he could
do “about raccuons coming from
a nearby ravine, and ravaging my
vegetable garden almost every
night!"”

The Canadian Garden Council,
as with many gardeners, would
like to have an easy answer to this
question. There is not one. There
are, however, a number of possi-
ble partial answers. For example,
there are various suggestions cir-
culating that a mixture of garlic
and onion powder applied to the
soil will keep them away. There
are also many gardeners who
swear by a half-full glass jar of
water just set in the garden.

However, for each person who
seems to have had success with
these ‘‘solutions,”’ there is at feast
one another who has found them
totally unsuccessful.

Still another suggestion is to set
a radio in the garden, and leave it
on (not at high volume!) all night.
This apparently scares some rac-
coons off. Other gardeners prefer
to obtain fresh human hair from

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barber or hair stylist shops, place
it in small cheese cloth bags, wet
them, and set them around the
areas that are to be protected
from raccoons. It is said that as
long as the wet hair is ‘‘fresh’’ it
remains effective.

Finally, at least one company
makes a smail electric fence unit
powered by just four “D’’ cell
batteries. It is totally harmless to
humans and pets. It does, howev-
er, keep raccoons away. Natural-
ly, it need only be turned on ai
night. Small plastic stakes are
placed in the ground around the
vegetables and (wo wires are
strung around the stakes at ap-
propriate heights from the
ground.

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