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by Kevin Diakiw
THERE ARE A
handul o other wood rame buildings withoutsprinklers or fre walls in Delta that could burn as hot and longas uesday’s blaze in the Kennedy Heights neighbourhood,according to Delta’s fre chie.Te fre at the three-storey wood building began at about 6a.m. as a one-alarm, but quickly escalated to a three-alarm blaze.Te 85-unit structure just behind Kennedy Shopping Centrenear Nordel Way and Scott Road was built beore fre sprinklersor fre walls were required by the B.C. Building Code.Eight people were taken to hospital with what were describedas minor injuries.Firefghters helped several people get out o the building by ladder.Te entire building was imme-diately evacuated and an area wasset up at nearby Kennedy SeniorsCentre where displaced tenantswere able to assemble.As o noon on Wednesday, 160displaced people had registered at the emergency centre.“Te primary search has indicated that we have accounted oreveryone,” said Delta Fire Chie Dan Copeland. “But we won’tknow that until a secondary search has been completed.”Mayor Lois Jackson said it will be di cult to determine inshort order i everyone is accounted or, as some might be onholidays or away on work.In all, there were ten fre trucks and 50 frefghters at the blaze,which took 12 hours to extinguish.Copeland said Wednesday, a day aer the fre, there are “threeor our” more wood rame buildings without sprinklers or fre-walls that are o concern in the municipality.Jackson said she’ll be meeting with sta to see i more can bedone to bring those buildings up to a saer standard.“Tis is something we’re obviously going to have to have alook at in terms o ownership and what we can require,” Jacksonsaid. “I guess we do count on landlords to ensure their buildings
Otherbuildingsat risk?
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by Dan Ferguson
CROWN PROSECUTOR
Paul Sandhu said theailing o a Surrey man who sexually abusedhis own children and their young riends ishardly a cause or celebration.“I don’t think happiness can be the rightemotion or anyone” Sandhu said Wednes-day morning.Sandhu spoke with reporters aer Sur-rey Provincial CourtJudge Michael Hicksimposed a jail sentenceo 13 years and sixmonths on a 36-year-old Surrey ather whotraded homemadechild pornography with other men overthe internet.As Judge Hickscalled the man “arelentless, determinedpredator,” the ordinary looking Caucasian man sat slumped in theprisoner’s docket, occasionally wiping hiseyes.His name cannot be reported becausethat would identiy the victims.He’s been in jail since January. Te manwas arrested shortly aer police in Australiauncovered an international child porn ringthat operated over the internet.Te Surrey resident was swappingpictures and videos with pedophiles inAustralia, South Arica, Ontario and thenited States.Te local RCMP investigation revealedthe man was sexually abusing three o hisown children and our o their riends and
No joy at verdict inSurrey sex abuse case
BOAZ JOSEPH / THE LEADER
Neighbours watch as a firefighter elevated over a rooftop worksto extinguish a stubborn fire that ripped through a North Deltaapartment building on Tuesday. Delta’s fire chief says thereare other, similar wood buildings without sprinklers in themunicipality.
Delta examines wood structuresand lack of sprinklers in wake ofthis week’s stubborn blazeFather molested hisown young childrenand their friends
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Beth Bartholomew and her son Alister, 8, look over the mound of mixed trash that was unloaded outside their home this week.
Mountain of garbagedumped in Delta driveway
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THE CALLER SAID
he had some bad news.North Delta resident Beth Bartholomewwas using a rare day of rom work ues-day morning to go shopping at a bulk buy warehouse when her neighbour rang her cellphone.He told her a big truck had pulled into theirneighbourhood, then he heard a “big loudbang” coming rom Bartholomew’s house.For one anxious moment, Bartholomewthought perhaps her house had exploded.Ten, the neighbour described how thetruck dumped a load o trash on her driveway all at once beore driving away in a hurry.No one had managed to get a licence platenumber.Assured that her house was undamaged, thesingle mother o two opted to nish her shop-ping beore she returned to her neighbour-hood in the area o 112 Street and Nordel Way to have a look.It was worse than she expected.A huge mound o junk, eight eet tall at itshighest and about 30 eet long was strewnacross the driveway in her ront yard.Tere were stufed-to-overowing garbagebags, pieces o trees, construction waste,worn-out carpets, car parts and other trash.And some papers with an address, whichis how Surrey RCMP were able to locate theperson responsible in less than 24 hours.As it turned out, the dumper was trying toget some revenge on a person who used to liveat the home where Bartholomew is raising herchildren.Tat person hasn’t lived there or awhile,but the man with the trash truck apparently wasn’t aware o that.Police have contacted the irate dumper toexplain the mistake and have suggested theman remove the garbage to avoid criminalcharges.Bartholomew happens to know theintended target o the dumping, and all shewill say is that she understands why someonemight be that angry with them.“It’s unny,” Bartholomew says o the misdi-rected dumping.“Once it’s gone, it’ll be even unnier.”She has praise or the Delta police andor the Delta municipal staf she initially contacted, who have ofered to have the trashhauled away at no charge.
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are sae and obviously you wouldthink the insurance companieswould as well.”Jackson also wants to revisit arecent provincial decision allowingwood-rame residential structureso up to six storeys.“I err on the side o caution, andwhen it comes to saety, a sprinklerust doesn’t cut it,” Jackson said. “I t’s made out o wood, it burns.”Staf will examine whether Deltahas the authority to limit the heighto wooden buildings.Tis week’s re proved to beextremely di cult to extinguish.One resident said her neighbourtried to plug in the cofee machineearly uesday morning and heard a“pop, pop, pop”shortly beorere rippedthrough theNorth Deltaapartmentbuilding.Momentslater, residentswere alerted by the shouts o children yellingthat there wasa re and instructing people to getout, according to witnesses.Delta Police helped set up thearea at the seniors centre or dis-placed tenants.Sgt. Sharlene Brooks said therewas little disruption to tra c at thebusy intersections, except or a ewmotorists who may have slowed tosee what was going on.Fire crews were still respondingto small areas o smoke at noon onWednesday.Kennedy Seniors’ RecreationCentre is located at 11760 88 Ave.Te reception centre hotline is 604-596-8722.
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Laurel and Michael Middelaer’sdaughter Alexa was struck andkilled in Delta in 2008.
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and haggard-looking Carol Berner sat motionless inher seat uesday morning as Surrey Provincial Court JudgePeder Gulbransen declared her guilty as charged in the May 2008 death o our-year-old Alexa Middelaer in Delta.Judge Gulbransen convicted Berner on two counts o dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm, and twocounts o impaired driving causing death and bodily harm.Gulbransen said the evidence presented during the trialshows that Berner was driving well over the speed limit andwhile her blood alcohol level may not have been over the legallimit, she was nonetheless impaired.“here is no other rational conclusion,” Gulbransen said.He said tests prove Berner was doing 91 km/h in a 50 km/hzone in a Ladner residential area when she hit some speedbumps, lost control and crashed into Alexa and her auntDaphne Johanson, who were standing on the side o the roadto eed a horse.Alexa did not survive.Her aunt required 13 hours o surgery or multiple racturesand a closed head injury. Alexa’s grandparents’ vehicle wasalso hit, but they escaped serious injury.“ravelling at this speed is not a minor lapse o attention,”Judge Gulbransen noted. “She (Berner) drove over them (thespeed bumps) as i they were not there.He dismissed as “pure conjecture” deence suggestions
Driver guilty in child’s death
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Safety:
Limitingheight o woodbuildingsconsidered
Woman convicted of impaired driving and dangerous driving
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