weather office yesterday, was -20,6. That was two degrees colder than the previous Ambulance dispatchers criticized by council AMBULANCE dispatchers are playing with the lives of people here, according to city councillors. City council suspects Kamloops-based ambulance dis- patchers sometimes don’t call in the local firefighters has spilled over into other regions. problem. “Somebody's having a pissing contest with somebody else and meanwhile other people are suffering for it” councillor David Hull said. Councillors keyed on the issue afler.a. jaca woman col- Mall food court. She continues to cling to life-at Mills Memorial Hospital. . Smith said it took 11 minutes for the ambulance to urrive, and local firefighters just across the street from the mall weren't nolified, “To have this woman wait for.11 minutes — which must have seemed like a bloody eternity - when there are trained people ready to go strikes me as really wrong,” Kull said. “Our people have spent a fot of time in training and effort,” Smith added, “It’s really frustrating.” Many firefighters have first-responder taining and can often beat ambulances to accident and emergency scenes because they’re already at the fire hall. Ambulance attendants often have to first get paged to'the ambulance station. attendants and firefighters in the Lower Mainland, who think they’re competing for the same jobs: “Dispatchers who start in the Lower Mainland carry that attitude with them,” Smith said. Smith estimates up to, 20 per cent of the lime e firefighters should be called but aren’t.. “It's not an isolated incident,” hie added. “Its tight across B.C.” B.C. Ambulance Service spokesman Bob Pierce says four minutes for the case in question. But he conceded frefighters should have been notified in the case, responders out,” Pearce said. “That is against policy and is currently being looked at by his supervisor.” He and an ambulance union official denied ispatchers “are deliberately failing to call in frefighters:: wee ecient * Chemical detonated” TWO FOUR-LITRE containers of a potentially explo- sive acid discovered at Mills Memorial Hospital last unit later that day. In liquid form, picric acid was used to muke a stain in which biopsy material was placed for examination. But when it crystallizes, it takes on explosive qualities, The acid had been used by Mills years before. The con- tainers were found on their side, leaking into a metal tray. Hospital employees were evacuated from the area sur- rounding the room in which the acid was found and the bomb disposal team flown up from Esquimalt.’ Terrace fire chief Randy Smith said the containers, tray and wooden shelf‘on which the trays had sat were trans- pored in a sand-filled dump truck to a gravel pit at the airport. “They didn’t take any chances,” said Smith of the two- man disposal unit, “I asked them afterward how serious it was and they said it was enough to take out the room.” Taxi competition planned A LOCAL MAN is planning to start a taxi company in competition with Kalum Kabs, Cliff Pratt is seeking a Motor Carrier Commission licence to operate four cars under the name of Terrace Taxi Ltd. He asked city council for support in his bid for a licence. Councillors passed a motion that said they had “no objection” to the proposal. Pratt, who once drove cab for Kalum Kabs, says he’ll buy four ex-RCMP vehicles and repaint them if he gets approval, Pile-up on highway A FOUR-CAR pile-up happened Sunday afternoon on Hwy 16 West near Carwash rock, Traffic had stopped and motorists were waiting after a semi-trailer truck jackknifed on the highway. RCMP said a pickup truck rear-ended the lineup al about 1:30 p.m. Three people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, and damage was estimated at $20,000. The incident happened just before. the highway to Prince Rupert was closed for several hours due to deteri- oraling weather. Colder winter forecast REMEMBER EL Nino? That was the term for warm water currents coming up from South America, giving us those mild winters of the last few years, Scientists now have a new term — La Nina, describing colder water currents coming up from South America. And it’s these currents + which may bring us a colder winter, “Perhaps it's not proof, but that’ s what’ sclentists are saying,” said Andy Schmiedel . at the Terrice airport Last week’s cold weather set a record Dec, 8 when it 1956 record. Expect milder weather all this week, because a job-security turf war in the Lower Mainland | And city council is calling for a public inquiry i into the lapsed with a heart attack three weeks ago in the Skeena | Smith said the problem is a rift between. ambulance ambulance attendants here arrived at the mall in just over = “The dispatcher in his judgment did not.call the first h A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 13, 1995 Soldier stolen RCMP ARE looking for the Grinch that stole an eight-foot tall tin soldier Christmas decoration from a home on Hwy 16 near the west end of town. Police said the toy soldier went missing some time on Tuesday Dec. 5, It’s made of plywood and covered in red and blue colored felt. The tin soldier also has a large top hat and dress coat on, and the right arm is in a raised position. It weighs nearly 80 pounds and is will be expensive to replace. Anyone who sees the missing toy soldier is asked to call Terrace RCMP or Crime Stoppers at 635-TIPS. Soldier owner Nelson McGinlay has a pair of them and says both were stolen but that one was recovered down the highway from his house, “They're worth about $2,000 a piece,” said McGinlay who received them as gifts from relatives. McGinlay traditionally lights up his home during the holiday season. It's near the Wild Duck Inn on Hwy 16, He estimates he has $35,000 invested in his display. In past years McGinlay has been a prize winner in the lo- cal Christmas lights decorating contest. It’s the first time in five years McGinlay has had a prob- Jem with someone tampering with his display. ph SD | aE | REAL ELEGANCE at UNREAL PRICES Trent 4 yor iself to fashions newest treasures. 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