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The Abbotsford Police Department has assembled a list of locations where suspicious fires have occurred in the past three months. The APD, along with Abbotsford Fire and Rescue, are working together to try and stop a rash of arsons.
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here there’s smoke, there’s fire . . . and with this week’s new anti-arson initiative, emergency crews hope there’s a phone call too. The Abbotsford’s police and fire departments are working with a newly created map documenting locations targeted during a rash of fires started over the past three months. There have been 27 suspicious blazes between April 10 and July 10, with 12 of those fires occurring at local schools and parks. Angela Scott, a youth squad officer with the APD, said along with the school fires, witnesses have seen young people fleeing the areas where the fires were set. see FIRES, page A7
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Lyle and Marie Ann McCann and the missing ’06 Hyundai Tucson police are searching for.
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he SUV belonging to a missing Alberta couple heading to Abbotsford was spotted in Prince George Tuesday, according to RCMP. Const. Gary Godwin said the vehicle description and licence plate number given to police by a couple who came into the Prince George RCMP detachment Tuesday around 2 p.m. matched those of the missing 2006 Hyundai Tucson belonging to Lyle and Marie Ann McCann from St. Albert, Alta. “They described the vehicle
and gave a partial licence plate, but enough numbers to fit it with [the missing] vehicle, and that it was driving slowly in a particular area of town,” he said. He described the area in question as “the bowl,” or central area of Prince George. The McCanns were heading to Abbotsford to pick up their daughter at the airport before starting a family holiday. They were last seen July 3 in a security video, fuelling their 1999 Gulfstream motor home at a gas station in St. Albert, Alta., a few kilometers northwest of Edmonton. Their RV was found ablaze two days later, hidden up a logging access road near a campsite out-
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side of Edson, Alta., about 180 km “It’s my understanding the vehiwest of St. Albert. cle was headed to somewhere Investigators confirmed no here in B.C., and that vehicle and human remains were discovered whoever was driving it, may have in the burnt-out RV. been in Prince George,” Godwin The missing Tucson, bearing said. Alberta plate ZPK 289, is now the The witnesses left contact inforsubject of a massive public search mation with police, but efforts as police attempt to reach them, so to piece together MORE INSIDE f a r, h a v e f a i l e d the mystery of its and investigators ■ The missing couple’s disappearance. urgently want to son discusses desperate Godwin said speak with them. search: Pg. A5 several plainGodwin said front clothes offioffice staff took their cers had been details down, and assigned to investigate the sight- then the couple went on their ing and that Edson RCMP had way. been notified. Police don’t know if the couple “We are taking this information is on vacation, and have their cell as very credible, and where the phone turned off, or if the phone investigation is going, as possibly is dead. very pertinent to the investigasee MISSING, page A5 tion.
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