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Langley man driving in fatal Surrey crash A 46-year-old Langley man is the only survivor of a horrific collision at the corner of 32 Avenue and 176 Street in Surrey on Sunday morning. Five members of one Surrey family were killed in the collision, which occurred about 11 a.m. A 2012 Dodge Caravan travelling west on 32 Avenue, driven by the Langley man, collided with the 1994 Toyota Corolla containing the five family members. The car was travelling north on 176 Street. Surrey RCMP say the Caravan driver allegedly went through a red light. The force of the collision cut the Corolla in two. The driver was a 31-year-old woman. Also killed were her mother-in-law, aged 68, sister-in-law, aged 47, and her two children, a five-year-old boy and three-year-old girl. The Langley man is in serious but stable condition in hospital. Surrey RCMP and the Lower Mainland Integrated Collision Analyst/Reconstruction Services (ICARS) team continue to investigate the crash. Both roads were closed for much of Sunday to allow the investigation to proceed. Surrey RCMP say it is likely charges will be laid.
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Eighteen-month-old Hayden Storteboom gets some help from his mom releasing salmon into the Nicomekl River on Saturday. More than 25,000 fry were released into the river as part of the Nicomekl Enhancement Soviety’s annual open house and fish release.
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The Langley Lions Seniors’ Housing Society has been busy converting private lounges into housing units to make sure those who would have been homeless following the April 3 deadly fire have a roof over their heads for now. At the moment, 20 out of the 100 people displaced by the fire at the Elm building had nowhere to go when provincial emergency funding ran out on Monday. But the society that runs the large low-cost housing complex in Langley City has been busy converting lounges into housing units to help. “We have committed to look after this smaller group with no place to go,” said administrator Jeannette Dagenais. “Some will have to share a unit but most will get their own, she said. “We’ve also converted Timbers dining room to feed them meals.” Half of the 100 residents displaced by the fire returned home on Friday. The man who was rescued from the fire, and was first listed in critical condition, has now recovered and the Lions have set him up in a first floor unit in one of the buildings, she said. Both the Lions and fire department refuse to say who the man was who died in the fire that erupted in a second floor unit on April 3. “He was a senior and from what we hear he was a hero,” said Dagenais. At the time, Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender told the media that the man in his 80s was knocking on doors to get everyone out when he succumbed to the black smoke that had enveloped the hallways. One hundred people were displaced, including numerous residents with mental health issues.
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