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Sudden ‘flashover’ fire guts WV home Brent Richter brichter@nsnews.com
NO one was hurt, but an older British Properties home was heavily damaged by fire Saturday afternoon. West Vancouver Fire and Rescue crews raced to the home in the 1100block of Eyremount Drive after someone called 9-1-1 reporting smoke coming from the home’s attic just after 1:30 p.m. “They attacked the fire very quickly but right at that point, the fire flashed. Everything around on that same floor got hot enough at the same time that it literally burst into flames. We had a major flashover situation, which made the fire very large, very quickly,” said fire chief Martin Ernst. Flashovers tend to occur when the temperature of See Nobody page 3
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WEST Vancouver firefighters attack a major house fire Saturday afternoon in the 1100-block of Eyremount Drive. The cause of the blaze has yet to be determined. There were no injuries. Scan photo with Layar or visit nsnews.com for more pictures.
Ministry to unveil Hwy. 1 redesign
Brent Richter brichter@nsnews.com
BIG changes could be afoot for one of the most traffic snarled areas of the North Shore as the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure and the District of North Vancouver are looking at a redesign of roads and Highway 1 access in the Lower Lynn and Seymour areas.
The project includes extending Keith Road around the Seylynn development to Mount Seymour Parkway via Fern Street overpass, widening the Keith Road bridge to four lanes, upgrades and a new park-and-ride lot for Phibbs Exchange, and a possible reroute of the Dollarton Highway and Mountain Highway on– and off-ramps. “This, to me, is a huge opportunity to deal with what has been the bane of transportation on the North Shore for practically
Keith Lynn, Fern Street plans may aid Seymour commuters
ever, which is when the (Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing) gets bottled up, everything backs up,” said Coun. Roger Bassam, the district’s liaison to the committee working on the plan. “If we can get some independent east-west flow, the people who live in Seymour and Lynn Valley — essentially 75,000 people who live in North Vancouver — are going to benefit from this.” The new proposal replaces the long-talked about Seymour flyover. The ministry is aiming to present two potential new road configurations to the public this fall, which should resolve one of the major grievances the district faces as it plans for future densification, Bassam said.
“(It’s) one of the biggest concerns people have about the modest growth that we are experiencing. Everyone thinks ‘Oh my goodness, the traffic is bad right now, how can we possibly we have more growth?’ “The reality is it’s not the growth that’s causing the traffic problems it’s bad engineering. We have to fix a lot of our interchanges.” If the plan goes ahead it will likely kill the North Vancouver school board’s plan to sell the mothballed Keith Lynn alternative secondary school. In March, the board named North Shore Studios as the preferred candidate to take over the property, which was last assessed at $7.25 million, but now, the land is at the crossroads of competing interests or, more literally, the off-ramp. Part of the plan includes the creation of a new exit from Highway 1 to Keith Road at Brooksbank Avenue. See Private page 5
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