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▼ STUDY SHOWS SMOKE ALARM PROGRAM IS WORKING
DRAMATIC DROP IN FIRE DEATHS: REPORT KEVIN DIAKIW
The number of fire fatalities has dropped dramatically in the province since the launch of a campaign to bring smoke alarms to those most at-risk. Fatalities from residential fires dropped by 65 per cent last year in B.C., according to a study just released by the University of the Fraser Valley, Centre for Social Research. The study, co-authored by Len Garis, Joseph Clare and Sarah Hughan, was released in September and cites provincial statistics from 2012 to 2014. continued on page 4
▶ VINTAGE VEHICLE Reflected in a mirror, Chloe Duchar, 10, prepares her toy car for sale at the Vintage and Revamp Furniture Market at the Cloverdale Agriplex Oct. 3. The weekend-long event, touted as the largest furniture market in the Lower Mainland, featured unique novelty items and antiques. BOAZ JOSEPH
KIDS’ MENTAL HEALTH UNIT DELAYED UNTIL 2017
▶ 10-BED SURREY PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY WILL STABILIZE POTENTIALLY SUICIDAL CHILDREN AND TEENS JEFF NAGEL
Surrey Fire Chief Len Garis
It will take longer than originally thought to open a new 10-bed unit in Surrey to stabilize potentially suicidal children and teens in mental health crisis.
Fraser Health had aimed to open the new Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Stabilization Unit (CAPSU) by the fall of 2016, but that estimate has been pushed back to spring of 2017. Health authority officials say they had to wait
for final approval from the province – which did not come until last spring – and have since determined the 2016 target was too optimistic. Once open, the state-of-the-art unit will take children and youth aged six to 17 who are in crisis with acute psychiatric problems for short stays of five to seven days. continued on page 2