NV EYES TOTAL FOREST SHUTDOWN

By CHRIS LLOYD

*- A-moss fire on rocks at an
inaccessible .

spot. in
Lighthouse Park ‘twice-
required involved

firefighting procedures over
the weekend and was
responsible for one
_ firefighter taking an un-
_ dignified swim while fully
clothed.

And ‘the’ incidents
triggered off the mechanism
to closing down the park to
any public access because of
the extreme fire risk there. _

spotted

Fire sparks cl

But t Saturday. morning the

fire had flared up again and

once more firemen had to .
boat their way to it and this

time they put it out with
portable pumps.

Saturday the park was
closed down to public access
indefinitely. ; -

‘Ttis thought the blaze had

started off as a camp. fire,

presumably lit when the tide
was lower and access was
easier.

This was one of a number
of beach fires which tied up

iosure
f Lighthouse Pr

rk |

District Fire ‘Department
four hours to put the fire out.

‘District fire chief Bob
McDonald says his
‘firefighters’ are constantly

‘responding to minor bush

fires, some of.-which are
started by accident by

“thoughtless ‘smokers ‘tossing ~

. lighted cigarette butts, while
. ‘others 2 are lit by children.

Whereas his department

has not encountered any
serious bush fires yet, he is
seriously concerned about
the fire hazard~ situation,
which he is watching closely. |

Restrictions are in force in

ict forest

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The fire . was West Van firemen for much
Friday evening on rocks east of Friday night.
of Point Atkinson lighthouse .
by Tom Hammond, who was_. Half an—hour—before—an-
offshore in the Radio CHQM = swering that one they had

boat on his marine patrol.

He radioed the coastguard
‘and picked up-three firemen
with a pump to tackle the
blaze, which was not easily
accessible from the park
itself.

The boat went to the bluff
where the fire was and
firemen had to leap from the
boat onto the rock. One of
them didn’ t make it and

They dampened down the
fire by using canvas buckets
full of water, finishing just
before dark in what turned
out to be a four-hour
operation.

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attended a beach fire at John
Lawson Park: Later that
evening they doused a
fisherman's fire which had
been lit on the rocks below
the lookout at Whytecliffe
Park and the evening wound
up with them being called to

< put out a fire left burning in

a log at Sandy Cove.

NORTH VAN ~

“ y

With conditions —
tinder dry, even the simplest
fire easily becomes a major
problem. In Lynn Valley
Sunday a man started a fire
in a stump in his yard to get
rid of a hornets’ nest there. It
took North Vancouver

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all North Van Distri

areas and Chief McDonald
says the next step would be
to completely close them all
to public access, as well as
introduce a shorter work day

for some construction crews.

Chief McDonald says that”

if the dry weather continues
he will also close Grouse
Mountain, including the
SkyRide, except to residents
and others who need to use it
inan emergency.

“Our next step will be to
place contractors on early
shift in certain areas such as
Grouse Woods, Blueridge,
and other areas where we
don’t have adequate ; water,”
he adds.

Three million want

HANOI, Vietnam (UPI) -
Vietnam says it has arrested
4,000 persons in an effort to
stem its exodus of refugees.
But a high government

official admits that dp to 3

million more people want to
flee the Communist country.

to leave Vietnam

Other security measures,
including increased shore
patrols and the threat of
death sentences for persons
convicted of refugee traf-
ficking, have also been
announced.

Thach said a small number

In an interyiew recently of refugee boats may elude

with American reporters, the dragnet, but that “the

‘Vietnamese Secretary of illegal >. fights, h=xR. ae

“omen Fate Nguyen Co Tach 1 EaId reduced toouriiimost™ *
- ~ ——yietnaiiit Has 86; chaCK er

down on the illegal flight of
Vietnamese boat pcople.

Thach said that 4,000
persons charged with
helping to organize the

illegal departure of refugees
have been arrested.

Earlier, Thach ‘told
visiting U.S. congressmen
the halt to the flow of boat
people was “forever, a
permanent policy.”

But he admitted that a
large number of Vietnamese

- up to 3 million - are
potential refugees who still
want to leave the country.

Vietnam's total population
is about 48 million.

Thach denied charges by
refugees that the Viet-
namese BoOv rnment

Sorgentned” he he
ethnic .
shiploads.

He said the exodus had
worsened Vietnam's chronic
food shortage because the
refugees have taken at least
5,000 state-owned fishing
boats with them.

Acid rain study planned in US

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Environmental Protection
Agency will spend $900,000
on research projects lo study
acid rain — rainfall polluted
by power plants, smelters
and automobiles.

which
affects most Of the U.S. cast
of the Massissippi,

The phenomenon,

could be

worsened with the future
increase in the use of coal
instead of oil in power plants
unless resqarch uncovers
answers to prevent it, EPA
said.

The agency said $500,000
will go to North Carolina
Suate University for a study
of lakes which have already
been damaged by such rain,
and oof lumber and foe

crops which are most
vulnerable.

An additional = $400,000
will go to the EPA

laboratory in Duluth, Minn.,
to study the threat to more
than $.000) takes in the
Boundary Water Canoe
Area where increased levels
of mercury in trout, walleye
pike and northern pike may
be related to acid rain.

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