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Terrace Review —— Wednesday, November 27, 1991

Safety on the job is a common

theme, but the unwary stil] walk
into the unexpected. A worker at
a local construction site fell prey
to the unexpected at about 8
am. Monday morning and is
lucky to be resting at home
today.

Intent. on his job, the worker
apparently forgot where he was
and simply walked off the end
of an 18-foot-high scaffold. A
Mills Memorial Hospital spokes-
man says the oversight cost the
worker a day of observation in
intensive care
undetermined number of days
off the job. If he hadn't landed
just right, however, it could have
cost him his life.

Four. Terrace residents were
lucky early Sunday morning. It
is believed driving at an unsafe
speed was the cause of an acci-
dent that destroyed a 1979 GMC

-pickup and sent all four occu-
pants to hospital by ambulance.
A Mills’ Memorial Hospital
spokesman said three of the
injured persons were treated in
emergency and released, while
the fourth required hospitaliz-
ation for only a day. .

RCMP Cpl. Garry Moritz says

_ the: vehicle was travelling west

on Highway 16 just west of the
Kalum Bridge when the driver
lost control and the vehicle left
~ the road. An: RCMP investiga-
tion into the incident continues.
. Little information is available
at the present time on a single
motor vehicle’. accident on

- Queensway Dr. Monday night.

Terrace fire chief Bob Beckett
reports that Rescue Ol was

called to the scene’ at taxpayers -

expense at about 8:30 p.m. but
when firefighters arrived the
driver had left the scene. The
driver apparently lost control of
the vehicle and drove over a 10-
foot embankment into a five-
foot-deep, water-filled ditch.

Terrace B.C.Ambulance Ser-
vice (BCAS) — Monday, Nov.
18 to Sunday, Nov. 24. The
week’s tally of 38 ambulance

and an-

responses included 23 local,
inter-city and medevac transfers
in and out of Mills Memorial
Hospital and six medical emerg-
encies such as shortness of

breath and. seizures. Terrace
BCAS paramedics also trans-
ported seven people to hospital
due to trauma caused by seven
incidents such as household or
industrial accidents, violence or
substance abuse, and attended
two motor vehicle accidents that
resulted in injury to four people.

BCAS medical tip — Signs
and symptoms warning of a
heart attack may include:

¢ Chest pains.

¢ Radiating pain in the left
arm and left jaw.

i

¢ A tingling sensation in the
fingers of the left-hand.

+ Anxiety, restlessness.

* Weakness and/or shortness
of breath.

* Dizziness.

* Cool, clammy skin.

* Nausea, vomiting. |

TREATMENT — Immediately

phone the ambulance emergency

number, 638-1102, and give the -

dispatcher the following infor-
mation: The address and phone
number of the location where the

incident is taking place, and the

patient’s name, age and condi-
tion. While you’re waiting for
the ambulance to arrive, reassure
the patient help is on the way
and have him sit down, or if he
wishes lic back. Note: A phys-
ician should be contacted im-

- mediately for any chest pain that

lasts more than 10 minutes...

Regardless of the suspected

Cause.

House fire in Kitimat
kills 10-year-old girl

It takes more than a well-pre-
pared fire department to save
lives. It takes public awareness
as well. Kitimat fire chief Bill
Dawson says they received a
report of a house fire at 21 Teal
St, at about 2:24 a.m. on Thurs-

day, Nov. 21. Firefighters were .

on the scene within four minutes
but the ground floor of the home
was. already fully involved in
flame. Inside, 10-year-old Sheila
Silva lay dead.

Once the flames had been
extinguished and investigators
began their work, they dis-
covered a series of circum-
stances to blame. First, there
was the gas fired furnace that is
believed to be the cause of the
fire.

That isn’t to say the furnace in
the Silva home wasn’t main-

tained properly, but there are

many people who take their gas
furnace for granted, and from
year to year never give mainten-
ance a second thought. One
news report that stated the cause
had been determined to be a
vibrating pulley that wore a hole
in the pilot light supply tube is
false, says Dawson. That can’t
be determined until the results of

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week’s time.

The second factor leading to
the girl’s death, says Dawson,
was a smoke detector deemed
useless for lack of a battery.
Still, the family was alerted to
the danger and might have
escaped uninjured, but Dawson
says the family did not have a
good escape plan.

Dawson says the tragedy has
been pieced together and it
happened something like this:
Sheila, her two older sisters and
an older brother, and her mother,
Margarita Silva, had almost
gotten out of the home.

The sister stopped in the back
porch to get her coat, and there
was apparently a brief moment
when Sheila didn’t notice her
sister was no longer beside her.
When she did become aware of
it, she left her mother’s side to
go back and help. Due to poor
visibility, though, she walked
behind her sister, back into the
house, and turned left into her
mother’s’ bedroom where she
became trapped. A witness saw
the older sister leave the home,
and at that point the interior of
the home burst into flames.

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"in the greater Terrace area is invited to

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come to the ‘

GRAND OPENING

of the Terrace Peaks new gymnastic

facility next to the Thornhill Community Center

November 30, 1991

from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The club wants to THANK the entire
community for their support, and to
convey special thanks to the following

contributors:

Plaques $500

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