2 — The Prince George Citizen — Monday, June 19,1989
Provincial
HAZARD
Total Reduced Sulphur, measured in parts per billion (ppb).
Van Bien
VANCOUVER (CP) - A six-week-old boy and his mother suffered burns after a fiery explosion Sunday at a Mohawk gas station in Burnaby trapped them inside a nearby telephone booth.
An empty, 10-kilogram propane tank stored in the station’s shed was ignited by a spark shortly after noon. It exploded, shearing off the station’s natural gas line at a gas meter on the side of the building.
The explosion blew out the south wall of the station, shattered a plexiglass bus shelter and knocked over the nearby telephone booth, a fire department spokesman said.
The 18-year-old mother received bums to 25 per cent of her body and is listed in fair condition at Vancouver General Hospital’s intensive care unit.
Her six-week-old boy is in critical but stable condition at Children’s Hospital, said a spokesman.
No names have been released.
Trevor Massey, a waiter at a restaurant across the street from the gas station, said he heard the explosion and saw flames leap as high as a street lightpost.
“I was serving a table when I heard a big bang,” Massey, 22, said. “Everything was shaking — I thought the whole roof was coming down.”
He ran outside and saw the phone booth on its side with the station roof on top of it, he said.
“Flames were coming in the top and bottom of the booth and I saw someone trying to break the glass with a two-by-four,” Massey said. "I ran out and grabbed (the trapped woman) by the ankle and dragged her out the broken window.
“She had a baby strapped to her stomach and she kept asking about her baby but it seemed okay — it was making gurgling noises and spitting,” he said.
The woman’s back, face and hair were badly burned, Massey said, adding he received a few cuts from the phone booth’s broken glass.
Tourist alert
The following persons, believed travelling in British Columbia, are asked to call the person named for an urgent personal message:
Louise Lamb, Penticton, B.C., call Joan Sheppard Bert and Edith Pederson, Star City, Sask., call Melfort, Sask., RCMP
Citizen photo by Brock Gable
Members of the Cominco-Kimberley First-aid team participate in the 32nd Workers Compensation Board provincial First aid competition in Prince George Saturday. First place honors in diagnostics and emergency rescue went to the North Shore St. John Ambulance from the Lower Mainland No. 1 First-aid zone, second place to the Rock Pro team from the North Vancouver Island
competition zone- Meanwhile, the mine rescue competition, sponsored by the Ministry of
Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, was also held Saturday. Winner of the open pit rescue went to Teck Corporation, Afton Operating Corporation; Underground Mine Rescue winners were Westmin Resources Ltd., while the miners’ three-person First-aid event was won by Quintette Coal Ltd.
Ferry mishap investigated
VANCOUVER (CP) — The ferry Queen of Albemi returned to service Sunday, two days after slamming into the Departure Bay dock outside of Nanaimo.
Six people suffered minor injuries in the collision. Five were released from hospital after treatment Friday. The sixth was released Saturday after staying overnight because of a minor concussion.
The 13-year-old ferry was carrying a full load of 274 vehicles and 760 passengers when it ran into the dock.
The impact sent passengers sprawling on the deck and damaged some vehicles on board.
B.C. Ferries spokesmen described damage to the Queen of Albemi as minor. An internal investigation is under way to determine how the accident happened.
* “All indications are that it was a mechanical failure,” said Ron Davis, a B.C. Ferries spokesman.
“We won’t know exactly what until the investigation is complete.
“The ship was coming to a dock and something happened on the ship that she did not completely
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The winning numbers in Saturday’s Lotto-649 draw were 18, 23, 24, 25, 31 and 32. The bonus number was 3.
There was no winner of the jackpot prize of $4,170,951.20. Therefore, the Lotto-649 jackpot prize pool for the next draw will be an estimated $6,600,000.00.
The second prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers and the bonus number, had four winners of $219,331.50.
The third-prize pool, awarded to those matching five regular numbers, had 352 winners of $1,905.90.
The fourth-prize pool, awarded to those matching four regular numbers, had 18,207 winners of $70.80.
In addition, there were 380,276 prizes of $10 awarded to those matching three regular numbers.
There was a total of 398,839 prizes worth $10,810,969.60.
The four extra winning numbers for British Columbia on Saturday were 17 — 57 — 59 — 79.
The eight winning BC Keno numbers were 06, 13, 15, 36, 38, 40, 54 and 56.
The winning Lotto BC numbers were 02, 15, 24, 33 and 36. The bonus number was 11.
The winning numbers in the Express draw Saturday were 954952, 765417, 580480 and 680250.
The $1,000,000 winning number in Friday’s Provincial lottery draw is 3688566. There are also subsidiary prizes.
In the event of a discrepancy between any of the numbers above and the official winning numbers list, the latter shall prevail.
Tomorrow’s forecast. Temperatures: tonight's low/tomorrow’s high.
Bikers'
party
vetoed
NANAIMO (CP) - The RCMP in Nanaimo seem to have put an end to the Hell’s Angels annual party.
But Mayor Frank Ney says police may have reacted hastily.
Ney said word that Nanaimo RCMP had denied the Angels a special-events permit came as “a bit of a surprise.”
In four years, he said, there’s never been a problem with the B.C. Day weekend party at Angel Acres, eight kilometres south of the Vancouver Island community.
Each year, about 5,000 bikers came to Angel Acres from across Canada, the U.S. and abroad. Last year they left about $500,000 in the pockets of local merchants.
Nanaimo RCMP Insp. Dennis Brown could not be reached for comment. But in a letter dated May 18 to Nanaimo Regional District, Brown said any bid by the Angels for a special-events permit “would not be approved.”
Mom, baby burned in blast
Temperatures
TORONTO I CP I - High-low temperatures and precipitation in millimetres Tor the previous 24 hours issued today by the weather office:
Vancouver
Victoria
Coniox
Port Hardy
Prince Rupert
Stewart
Terrace
Penticton
Kamloops
Abbotsford
Cranbrook
Revelstoke
Blue River
Puntzi Mountain
Williams Lake
19 17
17 14 14 25 16 25 22
18 23
20
10 005.8 10 003.4 9 004.6
8 001.4
4 000.0
9 000.0
5 000.0 13 000.4 13 000.0 11001.0 10000.2 10010.6
Misg Misg 4 000 0
Prince George Mackenzie Fort St. John Fort Nelson Dease Lake Peace River Whitehorse Dawson City Yellowknife Inuvik
Resolute Bay
Eureka
Alert
Cambridge Bay Calgary Edmonton Lethbridge Medicine Hat Swift Current Regina Saskatoon Prince Albert North Battleford
Weather
Immediate Prince George area: Mainly cloudy with clear periods and windy at times today and Tuesday, with some risk of showers or thundershowers.
The chance of showers is 80 per cent today and overnight, dropping to 70 per cent Tuesday.
The predicted high today is 14, the overnight low 3 and the high Tuesday 16.
Sunday’s high was 14.2, the overnight low was -0.9, breaking the
Water, water everywhere
VANCOUVER (CP) - Deborah Ann Roy may have some nightmares — before she gets to sleep oh her waterbed.
Roy set up her new waterbed on the second-floor of her rented home in the suburb of Richmond on Friday, turned off the faucet and headed downstairs.
Some time later she “heard the floorboards creaking” and went upstairs. She opened the bedroom door and gasped at her waterbed — "the size of a Cadillac.”
She quickly pulled the hose from the faucet and called the fire department.
Although Roy was not amused, the Firemen “arrived laughing.”
One fireman “squeezed the hose that was letting water out. And the bed exploded.”
There was water — more than 4,500 litres — everywhere.
“It was like a waterfall,” she said. “The place was flooded.”
Next, the firemen ripped out a toilet to help the water drain away.
Roy, however, was not too grateful and is considering suing Richmond fire department for its help.
14 -1 000.2 Winnipeg Misg
16 4 000.2 Brandon Misg
17 7 000.0 Churchill 4 2 003.6
20 10012.8 The Pas 20 11000.4
9 5001.6 Kenora 26 15 000.4
18 3 000 0 Thunder Bay 23 9000 8
17 6 003.4 North Bay 21 12 003.2
Misg Toronto 26 13000.0
18 11000.0 Ottawa 18 12003 0
14 0 001.0 Montreal 20 12 005 4
4 1000 0 Fredericton 19 11005.6
4 1000.0 Charlottetown 20 14 009.8
7 5000.0 Halifax 18 10 006 2
14 3 000.0 St. John’s 29 13 000.4
22 10000.0 Spokane 23 11000.0
22 9 000.0 Portland 22 12 000.5
24 8 000.0 San Francisco 22 12000.0
26 10000.0 Los Angeles 22 17000 0
23 10 000.0 Las Vegas 44 29000.0
27 9000.0 Reno 33 12 000.0
Misg Phoenix 46 31 000 0
Misg New York City 28 21 000 0
28 11000.0 Miami 32 24 000.3
1955 record low of 0.0 for this date. In the past 24 hours, 0.7 millimetres of rain and 4.9 hours of sunshine were recorded.
A year ago today the high was 16.5 the low 7.7, with a trace of rain and 8.7 hours of sunshine recorded.
Sunset today is at 9:45 p.m. and Tuesday’s sunrise is at 4:39 a.m.
Chilcotin-Cariboo, Prince George, Bulkley Valley-The Lakes: Patchy morning fog with local sunny periods early this morning. Otherwise cloudy with showers and chance of thundershowers developing toward noon. Gusty winds and chance of hail. High 15. Tonight, cloudy with a few showers. Chance of evening thundershowers. Windy. Low 4. Tuesday, cloudy with sunny breaks. A few showers. High 16. Probability of precipitation 90 per cent today, 80 tonight and 80 Tuesday.
Parsnip: Cloudy with morning sunny periods. Patchy morning fog. Showers and chance of thundershowers developing this afternoon. Gusty winds at times. High 13.
Greater Vancouver: Rain turning to showers early this morning. Sunny breaks developing toward noon and slight chance of an afternoon thundershower. High 16. Tonight, cloudy with clear periods. Showers becoming less frequent toward midnight. Low 8. Tuesday, cloudy with sunny periods. Chance of a shower. High 18. Probability of precipitation 100 per cent today, 80 tonight and 40 Tuesday.
Greater Victoria: Rain turning to showers early this morning. Sunny breaks developing toward noon and slight chance of an afternoon thundershower. High 16. Tonight, cloudy with clear periods. Showers becoming less frequent toward midnight. Low 7. Tuesday, cloudy with sunny periods. Chance of a shower. High 19. Probability of precipitation 100 per cent today, 80 tonight and 40 Tuesday.
Air quality index
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200 p»b
The week starts out well for air quality, with the weekend’s weather having blown industrially-produced pollution away and leaving all stations with zero readings of total reduced sulphur compounds.
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