2016 POCO GRAND PRIX
The inaugural PoCo Grand Prix — part of the BC Superweek bike racing series — is set for Friday. And there’s more to the event than the race (featuring local talent), including entertainment and a biz expo. See special section starting on page 17 Also: TC Arts, page 32 and TC Sports, page 35
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PM mother dead, father charged Neighbours helped 5 children get out of burning home SARAH PAYNE
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A Port Moody mother of six is dead after an apparent domestic dispute and house fire Sunday afternoon and her husband has been charged with seconddegree murder — leaving their children, five of whom were at home at the time of the incident and narrowly escaped by clambering out of the second-floor window, without their parents. Neighbours of the family on Dewdney Trunk Road recalled a terrifying scene as the incident quickly unfolded shortly before 1:30 p.m. “The fire was roaring pretty good and the windows started blowing out,” said Carol Atkins, who ran across the street when she heard the sirens stop just outside her townhouse complex. She didn’t know the family but exchanged hellos when
walking by and described them as friendly. A resident of the trailer park about a block away said he’d also chatted briefly with the couple and had spoken to the man about an hour before the fire broke out. He was walking back past the house when the windows started “popping and cracking. It was just awful,” he said. Other residents of the area agreed the family generally kept to themselves; two reported seeing police at the home before but couldn’t say when. Port Moody Police were called to the home just before 1:30 p.m. to respond to a domestic dispute in progress but officers arrived to find the home engulfed in flames, with two adults still inside. Officers acted quickly to retrieve the occupants and located a woman suffering from extensive burns. She was immediately taken to hospital but succumbed to her injuries just after 6 p.m. Sunday. see NEIGHBOURS, page 4
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A man, who is handcuffed, is treated by BC Ambulance paramedics at the scene of a fire Sunday afternoon in the 3300-block of Dewdney Trunk Road in Port Moody in which a mother of six was hurt, later dying of her injuries. Her husband has been charged in her death.
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