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Second death while ambulance 30 minutes away BLACK PRESS
An Ashcroft resident has died within a half-block of the town’s BC Ambulance Service station after an ambulance took nearly a half-hour to reach him. He has been identified by family as Jerry Spooner. It is the second time in less than a month that an Ashcroft Judy Fox-McGuire, BCGEU’s vice-president of the social, information and health component, rallies fellow union members on resident in severe medical distress the picket line outside the BC Liquor Distribution Branch warehouse in Dallas on Monday. Picket lines went up in Kamloops and has had to wait nearly 30 minutes at other warehouses in B.C., placing in question how the supply of alcohol and cannabis to businesses will be impacted. for an ambulance, despite the ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW community having a 24/7 Alpha ambulance station. In both cases, the patients died. It is not known if they would have survived had an ambulance Picket lines are up at the stores source their product. arrived earlier. An investgation by KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK Kamloops Distribution Centre at Dino Bernardo, owner of the BC Emergency Health Services is It might be a good idea to stock up 9881 Dallas Dr. and at three other Commodore Lounge and Fiora underway. on your favourite beer, wine or spirits warehouses in the province. Fresca cannabis shop, said he was Ashcroft Fire Rescue received as picket lines are up outside governThe union said retail liquor and able to stock up on liquor orders this a call from Kamloops Fire ment liquor distribution warehouses, cannabis stores are not part of this past weekend because the governDispatch at 8:42 a.m. on Sunday, including the location in Kamloops. phase of job action. ment retail BC Liquor Stores remain Aug. 14, advising that a man had The BC General Employees’ The government wholesale and open. suffered an apparent heart attack Union began targeted job action at distribution centres are where all However, the cannabis supply can and that the nearest ambulance select BC Liquor Distribution Branch the alcohol sold at public and prionly be ordered from the warehouse was in Clinton and would take 35 wholesale and distribution centres on vate liquor stores and restaurants behind picket lines. minutes to arrive. Monday. This comes after the union and pubs originates. It is also where Fire Chief Josh White took the issued strike notice on Aug. 12. licensed public and private cannabis See WAGES, A7 call, advised that the fire depart-
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ment is a volunteer one and that members are not trained as medical first responders. However, as he has a level 1 first-aid ticket, he said he would attend. After grabbing the automated external defibrillator (AED) and gloves from the fire hall, White arrived on site at 8:58 a.m., closely followed by three other firefighters who arrived in personal vehicles. “The AED indicated no pulse and never called for a shock,” White said. “However, it was evident he had only recently gone down when we arrived and I couldn’t say if he was dead or alive at that point.” A neighbour produced security cam footage that showed Spooner walking his dog in an alleyway off Elm Street, directly across from the ambulance station. The footage shows him collapsing at 8:21 a.m. White said firefighters and a neighbour performed CPR until the ambulance arrived at 9:11 a.m. See CRISIS CALLS, A6
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