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Terrace B.C. Ambulance Ser- ,
vice Report from Wednesday, ©

May 6 to Monday, May it

The past week has not been .
extremely busy, but more. than’
half of all BCAS dispatches in the
Terrace area were for serious .

injuries or medical problems..
The first call of the week was

in the late afternoon of May 6..
- Terrace paramedics picked up the ~
Advaneed Life Support (ALS)

team at the Terrace-Kitimat. air-

port and drove them to Kitimat
General ‘Hospital to pick up a
woman in her mid-40’s suffering

chest pain. The ALS team and
their patient were then driven to

.the. airport for.a flight to the

lower mainland, where the

woman received more extensive -

tests and treatment. The follow-

ing day an 83-year-old Terrace

man suffering general weakness

was also sent by aircraft to the
lower mainland.

On Friday, May 8, there were

a total of four calls. The first was

for the early morning transfer of.

a Kitimat General patient to the
Mills Memorial nuclear medicine
facility for tests. The 58-year-old
man was driven back to Kitimat
during the lunch hour. |
At about 1:30 p.m. the same

_ day, Terrace paramedics ' were

called to Caledonia Senior Secon-
dary School to attend to an 18-
year-old girl who suffered an
accidental head injury during gym
class. At about 9 p.m. that eve-
ning, Terrace BCAS attendants
drove a 29-year-old Iskut woman

suffering severe abdominal pain
from the airport to the Terrace

hospital. -

‘Terrace paramedics and Ter-
race firefighters were called into
action early Saturday. morning
following a single motor. vehicle
accident on Highway 16 West

will feel the results of the incident

for some time to come. RCMP Cst. -
. Jamie. Praticante: says the man .
apparently lost control of his:east
bound vehicle at about 5:30 a.m., —
_erossed the on-coming lanes ‘of
‘ traffic and-struck a power pole,
causing about. $2,000 damage to
his: Toyota. Praticante says the
‘man was later. charged with
impaired driving and driving with
ho insurance... -While paramedics
tended to the man’s injuries, Ter-
-yace firefighters hosed down

spilled fuel at. the accident scene.
Shortly after 10 p.m. Satur-

day night, paramedics were calléd

to a local residence to treat: a man

- jn his mid-30’s suffering a sore
leg due to a- household accident.

The man was ‘transported to the

Mills. Memorial emergency ward

with a possible fractured leg.

Sunday, Mother’s Day, was
apparently injury- and ‘illness-
free. There were no calls for an oS
Monday, ‘however,
"was much different. There were
- three medical emergencies, an

ambulance.

industrial accident, and one call

to the airport. at about 9:20 p.m. |
to transfer a five-week-old Dease -
Lake girl to Mills Memorial Hos-
_ pital for medical assessment and.
* treatment. :
The first call of the day « came»
'_in just before 8 a.m. for a 66-year-

old Terrace woman suffering.

general weakness. Paramedics
were assisted on this call by. the
Terrace Fire Department first
responder team. About two hours
later assistance was needed by. a

59-year-old Terrace area man-

suffering chest pains, and an-hour
after that by a woman in her
early 20's working at a Keith Ave.

business who was suffering from

_ gevere. abdominal pain, os

At: about 11:39°° “alm,

- | paramedics ° were called to: Mount”
_ Layton Hot Springs to attend toa
Ai-year-old Mount Layton Hot

Springs worker suffering ‘a head

So) injury. ‘The. man. was apparently "
near Munroe St. The 20-year-old.
male driver of the vehicle: only |
_ suffered cuts and scrapes, but -
according. to Terrace RCMP he

struck. on the head by.a piece of
equipment he was attempting to
move:.

‘Tuesday morning a 67-year-
old. ‘Kitimat woman. was. driven

from the airport to. Kitimat Gen-,
eral ‘Hospital. following medical .
treatment at. St. Paul's Hospital
in Vancouver, 22 oF

FIRE REPORT —

In addition to attending a fuel
spill at an early morning motor
vehicle accident. on May 9 and
assisting Terrace BCAS
paramedics on an - emergency

~ medical call on May 11, the Ter-
race Fire Department had. two |

calls in the past week. The first
was due to smoke coming from
the rear of a kitchen stove; and

_ the second -was'a small brush fire |
Sunday evening at the gravel pit.

west of Frank’s Field. Neither fire
caused serious damage.
‘Thornhill volunteer _ fire-

fighters were called to two fires in
the past. week. The first occurred”
at a residence at about 10: :30 p.m.
last Saturday. A resident: finished

smoking the weekend catch at
about: 9 p.m. but an hour-and-a-
half later it became obvious the
smoker had more:in mind than
smoking fish, . - Fire chief Art

_ Hoving says the .small portable
smoker was destroyed in the.

blaze, and the corner of a garden
shed and a Jeep parked nearby
were damaged. a

Thornhill volunteers ‘also

attended the scene of.a suspicious

fire at about 5:15 a.m.. Tuesday
morning. A regional district stor-
age shed located on a soccer field
at Thornhill Primary School.was
broken into and intentionally set

ablaze. Anyone with any infor-

mation ‘is asked to contact the
Terrace RCMP at 635-4911.

_ ‘Terrace Review — May 15, 1992 16

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