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Residents seek refuge from smoke in hotels AUREN RUVINSKY writer@pqbnews.com
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A Courtenay man was airlifted to hospital on Monday after the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a truck (not in photo) on the Alberni Highway in Parksville.
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Scary moment on the Alberni Hwy A 68-year-old Courtenay man was airlifted to hospital with hip and leg injuries Monday after his motorcycle was struck by a truck on the Alberni Highway near the train tracks in Parksville, Oceanside RCMP reported. The man was travelling westbound on the highway on a 2008 Yamaha cycle when he was struck by a 2004 Chevy pickup truck entering the highway from the Bottle Depot.
The driver, a 37-year-old Parksville man, was cited for failing to yield after a stop, RCMP Cpl. Jesse Foreman said. “He had stopped at the sign, but didn’t see the motorcycle and pulled out in front of it,” Foreman said of the truck’s driver. “He was very upset by this and fully co-operative.” The victim suffered a serious hip injury and a possible broken femur, said Foreman. He was taken from the
site by helicopter as a precaution in case of a possible head injury. The rider was wearing a helmet. Foreman said RCMP did not know which hospital the man was transported to. “Everyone that’s using the road should expect to see more motorcycles and bicycles out this time of year,” Foreman said. “It’s good to make a conscious effort to look out for these riders.” — NEWS Staff
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The Regional District of Nanaimo is looking into an outright ban on open burning. “The open burning regulations are inadequate to protect us,” Doreen Hampton told the RDN board Tuesday, speaking as a part of a delegation concerned with slash burning in her River’s Edge neighbourhood near Parksville. She said a resident has cleared about 20 acres and is starting to burn large piles of woody debris including huge stumps she said will burn for weeks. “During the burning there were occasions when I could hardly see across the street,” she said. “The severity of the smoke and ash has caused respiratory distress in people making them confined to their own homes.” She said some residents have gone to stay in hotels to be able to breathe and she called on the RDN to follow the example of the Cowichan Valley Regional District and impose a total ban on open burning. “The British Columbia Lung Association states that wood smoke hurts human health. Wood smoke contains small particles you breathe into your lungs causing problems,” she said. “These fires are not what you’d call campfires,” said fellow resident Rob Baker, “they’re the size of the whole inside of this building. When these are lit the smoke continues on for weeks, we can’t even go in our backyards.” “I don’t understand how this can continue,” he said passionately, calling on the board to do something immediately.
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