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The heat on balcony barbecuing turned down
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The Kelowna Fire Department has been authorized to ramp up its education campaign in response to the threat balcony fires pose on the many four-storey woodframe apartment and condo buildings in Kelowna. Between March and September, the fire department was called out to five such fires in the Central Okanagan, with the so-called Legacy fire in Rutland, during which the side of a building went up in minutes as the result of a barbecue incident, among the more notorious. “While it would be a simple solution to restrict (the use of) barbecues on balconies, the obvious problem is the enforcement,” said KFD chief Jeff Carlisle as he addressed Kelowna city council Monday. The council had asked the fire department and city staff to look into what can be done to mitigate damage from this type of fire after fires caused by everything from candles to an electrical cord from a balcony fridge left homeowners in the lurch this year. The fire chief said the fires pose a serious threat as they are currently not met with any form of structural control such as fire alarms, sprinklers or fire walls. “The affect of these fires is about 2.5 times greater than had it started in the unit itself,” he said. Fires that occur inside a condo or apartment, such as a kitchen fire, are met with a number of fire mitigation barriers ranging from mandatory sprinklers to alarms; however, on the outside of a building, under the B.C. Building Code, there is currently no such requirement. As was evident in the Legacy fire, vinyl siding is also highly combustible allowing a fire to climb several storeys in minutes before firefighters have a chance to respond. Once the fire crawls up the outside of the building, it then goes straight into the roof where the fire department can’t physically access it with ease and it
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Delegates attending a special general meeting of the B.C. Fruit Growers’ Association Monday were split on how drastically they wish to change their ‘parliament’ in light of changing times. The BCFGA executive called the meeting with a series of proposals to reorganize the 124-year-old organization. Although growers readily agreed to change the date of their annual general meeting, they were unwilling to permit orchard operators to allow their spouses, daughters, sons, daughters-inlaw or sons-in-law to vote in their stead. That motion was tabled for clarification prior to the next AGM, to be held prior to March 1, 2012, after an hour of heated debate. Sam diMaria, of Kelowna, called it a ‘slippery slope,’ that doesn’t require that those voting have any accountability to the industry.
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