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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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A 12-year-old boy was killed and three other people hurt when a crash shattered the calm of rural Langley Friday morning. A Ford Mustang heading east on Robertson Crescent was hit by a garbage truck going north on 256th Street at about 11:40 a.m., said Cpl. Holly Marks of the Langley RCMP. Police, ambulance paramedics, and firefighters rushed to the scene, but the boy was too badly injured. Another 12-year-old who was riding in the back, and the 18-year-old driver, the deceased boy’s cousin, were taken to hospital by Air Ambulance with serious injuries. It’s still unknown exactly what caused the crash, but police say the truck had the right of way at
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A large number of emergency crews responded to a crash involving a large truck and a passenger vehicle just before lunchtime Friday. the intersection. The Ford driver may have gone through the stop sign without checking, or possibly without stopping. “Whether the stop sign was jumped or whether she didn’t stop at all, we don’t know,” said Marks. The driver of the garbage truck was taken to hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. “Obviously he is just devastated,” said Marks. “There’s nothing happy about this.” Emergency responders to the crash were also deeply affected, due to the fact that children were the victims of the crash. “Our crews were pretty shaken,” said assistant Township fire
chief Bruce Ferguson. That extended to the police and ambulance crews who were at the scene as well, he said. Firefighters are being offered counselling after attending the crash. Speed and alcohol are not thought to have been factors in the crash. Investigators are performing mechanical inspections on the car and truck, and will be downloading the contents of the vehicles’ on-board computers to try to piece together exactly what happened. A second crash on Saturday, at about 7 p.m. on 264th Street between Robertson Crescent and 48th Avenue, just south of the
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Participants made their way south along 216th Street during the sixth annual Fort Langley Historic Half Marathon. The community run/ walk through Fort Langley and Walnut Grove finished up inside the walls of the Fort Langley National Historic Site. Right: Volunteers Nika Lohrasbi Azar and Henry Lo high-fived runners on the corner of 88th Avenue and 212th Street. See story on page A13.
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Firefighters ran into a burning building on Friday afternoon and came out with an injured woman who had slept through the fire. The fire broke out at about 4:30 p.m. in a home in the 21000 block of Crush Crescent, said assistant fire chief Bruce Ferguson. “There was a report that there was a person inside,” Ferguson said. The first firefighters on the scene found a woman inside, asleep on a bed, and brought her out alive. She suffered some smoke inhalation and was taken to hospital, but is expected to live. She very possibly could have died if firefighters hadn’t arrived in time, Ferguson said. The fact that full-time firefighters were available at the nearby Willoughby hall was a big help in get-
ting there quickly, Ferguson said. “We were on scene within four minutes of the actual call,” he said. “It normally takes that long to get guys to the hall, if it’s a paid call system.” The cause of the fire was an electrical short in the refrigerator. There was one smoke alarm in the suite, but it had not activated, Ferguson said. The home and its contents suffered about $150,000 worth of damage, and local disaster aid groups have found an alternate living space for the residents. Township firefighters also responded to a fire Saturday morning in the 20800 block of 88th Avenue. A pile of newspapers outside the door of a townhouse complex caught fire. They were quickly extinguished and only about $5,000 damage to the building was done. However, it’s worrisome as it may have been an arson. “It has the earmarks of a very suspicious fire,” Ferguson said.