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Josh Tatton (left) and Connor Sheriff (right) battle for a loose puck against the Invermere Rockies during the Golden Rockets Initiation tournament on Saturday. Joel Tansey/Star Photo
Purcell residents have a smoky evening Pink Day at Golden Secondary ..................................19
Jessica Schwitek editor@thegoldenstar.net The residents of Purcell View Apartments had an eventful evening last week when a resident smelled smoke in the building shortly before midnight on Tuesday Feb. 25. The resident pulled the manual fire alarm,
bringing the Golden Fire Department over to investigate at the 12th Street South building. “We arrived on scene very shortly after the alarm was activated…I saw that there was smoke inside the building,” said Fire Chief Ken McClure. While the chief was investigating what turned out to be a blown fuse that was generating a lot of
smoke (most of which was contained in the electrical room), the residents of the seniors housing complex had to be evacuated from the building. “The residents were never in real danger as the electrical service did exactly what it was designed to do,” said McClure. Continued on page 4