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n Abbigail Smyrl is digitally fingerprinted while creating an identification sheet Thursday at Salmon Arm GM. The dealership has made available an Operation Kidsafe fingerprint station free to the community. It provides an ID printout, intended to assist law enforcement in missing persons investigations. No database or records of children are stored. The only record is the ID printout, which goes home with the recipient for safekeeping.
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Family escapes early morning fire
Close call: Seven-year-old Sicamous girl wakes up to find her mattress ablaze. By Lachlan Labere
market news staff
A Sicamous family had quite a scare when their daughter woke up to find her bed on fire. Sometime after 1 a.m. on Monday, seven-year old Violet-Mae Sholtz was startled out of bed when she rolled over and saw it was on fire. Wysteria, Violet-Mae’s mom, said her daughter ran out of the bedroom and woke her dad, Warren, who was sleeping in the living
room. When he went in with a fire extinguisher, the flames were already up to the ceiling. The family, including VioletMae’s older brother and one-yearold sister, along with pets, were quickly gathered outside on the driveway. “It was pretty awful, but we’re just all really happy that we’re not in the hospital or mourning somebody,” said Wysteria. Sicamous Fire Chief Brett Ogino says that at 1:23 a.m., firefighters
received a call about a structure fire on McLean-McPherson Road. When they arrived, firefighters found it was, in fact, a residential fire. “Fortunately, though, there’s smoke damage and a bit of a nicesized burn mark up the wall… The residents, they were able to extinguish it and got the kids out…,” said Ogino. “The house is OK, there is some pretty good smoke damage… I talked to the little girl and she said she kind of woke up,
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rolled over and she could see fire in front of her face. A little scary.” Ogino believes the fire started from an electrical outlet near the bed. “We’re not sure why the electrical plug would cause it, but you could see it started right there…,” said Ogino. Wysteria says Violet-Mae is still disturbed by the incident, and none of the kids slept after the emergenSee Fire on page A3