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Burst main triggers landslide
Homes flood, roads buckle as crews battle nighttime rupture Benjamin Alldritt
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RESIDENTS of Lynn Valley’s Wembley Drive were roused from their beds at 4 a.m. Saturday as water from a broken main tore up their street, flooded carports and triggered a large landslide in the nearby Lynn Creek ravine.
“We heard it all whooshing through,” said Erin Marbry, whose basement also flooded. “Our driveway and carport was flooded about three feet high with water. It was gushing through our neighbours’ yards, everywhere.” “I was actually downstairs when it broke through the wall,” she said. “The drywall just split right up the side and it all came gushing through into our house and out the back door. It was powerful.” Memories of the fatal 2005 Blueridge landslide came back to Marbry as a 20-metre-wide swath of the slope gave way and plunged into the ravine behind her house, carrying dozens of trees with it. “It’s terrifying,” she said. “When the landslide happened, I was over at the neighbour’s with my kids and I heard the thunderous crash. I was thinking: ‘Was that my husband and my house going down the ravine just like Blueridge?’” See Upgrade page 3
Police seek clues in NV drive-by shooting Jane Seyd
jseyd@nsnews.com
THE chief of the Squamish Nation appealed to members of his community to come forward with information Tuesday after RCMP said a code of silence has stymied an investigation into a recent drive-by shooting.
Three men were involved in firing three rounds from a .45calibre handgun into a duplex in the 300-block of West 5th Street in North Vancouver in the early morning hours of Aug. 1. One of the bullets lodged in a hallway closet, near to the bedroom where a seven-year-old child was sleeping at the time. The child’s mother and a teenager were also home. The three gunmen then jumped into a vehicle and fled the scene. Corp. Peter DeVries of the North Vancouver detachment said RCMP believe the shooters hit the wrong home — located in a row of duplexes in a residential area of the Mission Reserve — and came close to harming innocent victims. Police believe the shooting is likely some kind of retaliation connected to a fight that broke out earlier in the evening between two groups of young men from the Squamish Nation in West See Wrong page 5
photo Julie Wilby
WATER from a broken main on the 2800-block of North Vancouver’s Wembley Drive triggered a large landslide early Saturday morning. Nobody was injured when a 20-metre-wide section of the slope slid into Lynn Creek.