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WV backs Variety

WEST VANCOUVER Mayor Derrick Humphreys has proclaimed February 19 - 25 Variety Club Week in West Vancouver.

The 1984 Variety Club Telethon will be broadcast live through B.C. for 22 hours starting at 8 p.m.

Saturday, February 25.

The telethon is seeking to raise money for three specific projects currently underway, the new Children’s Variety Research Centre, the Electro- Limb Program, to supply ar- tificial limbs to B.C. children and the Ronald McDonald House.

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ae . 'NEWS photo Extsworth Dickson NORTH VAN City fire inspectors. Perry Manns and Gavin Soames inspect the extensive heat and smoke damage done to a Keith Road apartment when a grow light dropped onto a chesterfield and started a fire. See story at right for details.

Light falls,

| Starts fire

A GROW LIGHT that dropped onto a couch is

believed to have been the cause of a fire Sunday

that extensively damaged a suite in a Keith Road

apartment building.

According to inspector”

Dave Burgess the lamp, which was attached to a ceil- ing hook by a spring clamp, either fell of its own accord or short circuited.

The resulting fire destroyed the couch, and damaged a nearby sewing table and chest. The _ re- mainder of the suite suffered heavy smoke and heat damage, however.

The heat at one point was so intense, it caused the win-

. dows of the apartment to ex-

plode. Walls were covered with soot and glass and plastic items throughout the apartment either cracked, melted or broke because of the heat.

The suite’s occupant was not home at the time of the

fire.

Burgess said it was only the quick action of the tenants of the apartment building, located at 161 East Keith, tharprevented the fire from spreading -beyond the suite.

“‘When they first smelled smoke, they pulled the alarm and telephoned the fire department right away,’’ Burgess said.

By the time the fire depart- ment arrived, the tenants had been evacuated and the fire located.

The extra two or three minutes the fire department gained by the-early alarm, Burgess said, helped prevent the fire from spreading.

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