Woman burned in Highway 99 crash
樱桃视频 briefs from 樱桃视频Fire Rescue and 樱桃视频RCMP:
A report of gunfire and then reports of a wildfire in the Porteau area resulted in the discovery of an unoccupied vehicle that went off Highway 99 on Monday (Aug. 1) at 1 p.m.
Cpl. Dave Ritchie said the vehicle was located near the Porteau Camp south of Porteau Provincial Marine Park.
Ritchie said police learned the driver had a can of fuel in the front of the vehicle she was driving. He said the fuel can blew up and that caused the car to go off the highway.
The driver got out of the vehicle and crawled up to the highway, said Ritchie. A passing driver stopped, picked her up and took her to 樱桃视频General Hospital. The 23-year-old woman was later transferred with hand and facial injuries to a burn unit at a hospital in Vancouver.
Suspected impaired driver causes pursuit
A 31-year-old North Vancouver man caused havoc Thursday on Highway 99 by driving through 樱桃视频with his four-way flashers on and crashing into a vehicle at Industrial Way to get away from the RCMP.
The man, whose name was not released by police, was southbound on the highway when drivers started calling to report what they suspected was a drunk driver in a 2004 blue Honda Civic.
Police stopped the vehicle just north of Industrial Way, but the Honda sped away and crashed into at least one vehicle as it pulled away. After the crash, Ritchie said the vehicle went through a red light at Industrial Way.
The vehicle was located a short time later at McDonalds, Ritchie said. The driver was trapped by police after he drove his vehicle the wrong way into the drive-thru lane at McDonalds.
Ritchie said the man gave police a number of false names before his real identity was determined.The suspect is facing a number of charges. The RCMP is asking for eye witness accounts from anyone who saw the events at about 2:25 p.m.
Const. Rod Guthrie is handling the investigation and he can be reached at 604-892-6100. Eye witnesses can also leave details with CrimeStoppers.
Lots of little stuff for firefighters
It was a busy week for 樱桃视频fire rescue with three minor accidents in one day, a grass fire another day and an ammonia leak at Brennan Park.
The accidents happened last Thursday (Aug. 28), said Firefighter Bob Fulton.
The first was at 10:54 a.m. and it involved three vehicles at Highway 99 and Mamquam Road involving two local drivers and a Washington State vehicle.
Fulton said one of the vehicles was turning left off the highway when it was hit by another vehicle trying to go straight through the intersection.
The second crash happened at 12:30 p.m. involving three vehicles at Highway 99 and Centennial Way.
Nobody was injured.
At 9:58 p.m. two vehicles collided at Cleveland Avenue and Hunter Place, Fulton said. Nobody was hurt in that crash.
Workers cause ammonia leak
There was a chemical leak scare at Brennan Park on Friday (July 29) when crews doing routine maintenance on the ice arena infrastructure caused an ammonia leak. Fulton said firefighters were called at 12:34 p.m. to help deal with the leak.
According to Parks, Recreation and Tourism director Bob Kusch, the maintenance workers mistakenly opened the wrong line as they worked to prepare for the reinstall the ice surface at the Brennan Park Arena.
Kusch said the leak was detected by an automatic sensor that trigged an alarm in the 911 dispatch centre.
Nobody was hurt and Kusch said nobody was in any danger.
Fulton said firefighters helped to keep people away from the scene and they packed up and left at 2:09 p.m.
HSSS field charred
Neighbours used buckets of water to put out a grass fire on Monday (Aug. 1) at Howe Sound Secondary School.
Fulton said the concerned residents put out the lunch hour fire.
According to Fulton, the fire was started by a human, probably a discarded cigarette, he said.
