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[Victoria Watcher]

Another similar article:


https://www.vicnews....on-info-7325690



Just a recap of a social media post.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 March 2024 - 09:11 AM.

[pontcanna]

@BCScan1

0804 hrs

1501 Glentana Rd at the Co-op "Multi Resi Structure" fire as paged @ 0759 Hrs

 

 #VictoriaBC #Crest911 #BCFireFighters #FYI #ScannerLowerIsland #MultiAgencyResponse

[Victoria Watcher]

Crews knocked down a fire at a home in the Gordon Head neighbourhood on Monday (May 27) morning.

Nobody was inside the San Juan Avenue home and neighbours told firefighters that it’s been abandoned.

“We’ve been through the building, 100 per cent it’s not occupied,” Saanich Fire department Capt. Charlie Rivers said at the scene.




https://www.vicnews....ad-home-7365639



Abandoned.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 May 2024 - 07:58 AM.

[Matt R.]

During a housing crisis? Odd.

[pontcanna]

From X/Twitter:

 

Structure fire overnight in N Saanich (Tatlow, near Deep Cove)

 

 

 

Link: https://x.com/SocMed...750468475949190

Edited by pontcanna, 09 June 2024 - 03:11 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Emergency responders on Saturday pulled a person out of Langford Lake who required immediate medical assistance.

 

A B.C. Emergency Health Services spokesperson said one patient was transported to the hospital in critical condition.

 

Langford Fire Chief Chris Aubrey said the department’s fire rescue boat was deployed around 2 p.m. for a water rescue at Langford Lake.

 

 

https://www.timescol...n-bcehs-9090251

[Victoria Watcher]

When Alison Ambroso recalls how she ran toward the docks of Langford Lake on Saturday, ripped off her jeans and jumped into the water after a call for help, it’s the silence of the bystanders that sticks with her.

 

“It was so bizarrely quiet — the people on the dock weren’t really freaking out, screaming and yelling until they saw the young man’s body come up,” said Ambroso, one of three people who dove in to rescue a teen from the lake bottom.

 

“I think that’s when the panic set in — it was such a fast, quiet thing that I don’t know that everyone clicked in that this is really happening.”

 

Belmont Secondary student Keron McKay, 17, is in intensive care in hospital after he slipped under the water and did not reappear, according to witnesses. Langford Fire Chief Chris Aubrey said it sounded like the teen was swimming with others when he went under and it was a few minutes before they noticed he hadn’t resurfaced.

 

Ambroso, a 41-year-old former lifeguard, was walking with her husband and his parents when she looked out onto the docks and saw people staring into the water. “It was oddly quiet” until she heard a boy call for help.

 

“When I saw that, I started running down to the dock, and just knew something was going on,” she said. “There was a woman already in the water, between the two docks, and this other young man had just jumped in.”

 

Another distraught boy began yelling “my friend is underwater.”

 

Ambroso grabbed a pair of goggles from a person sitting on the stairs of the dock, pulled off her heavy jeans, and dove in. The water was dark and murky, made worse by the silt stirred up as they swam, and the boy was dark-skinned.

 

The other woman in the water, who wears contacts, couldn’t see the victim. Ambroso, wearing goggles, could clearly see the teen’s bright white Umbro swimming shorts, which almost illuminated his shadowy figure.

 

“I tried to go down and I saw him floating quite deep and I saw his white shorts but I couldn’t get all the way down, couldn’t get my breath to go all the way down,” she said.

 

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...nd-teen-9109418

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 June 2024 - 05:13 AM.

[Mike K.]

Terrible. I hear the boy is a relative newcomer to our region.

[Mike K.]

Sounds like an explosives truck exploded on Skirt Mountain.

[LJ]

^Yeah, happened around 11:25 this morning, shook the house pretty good.

[Mike K.]

A man fell from the Goldstream trestle today.

We just received an update from the family. They say he is alive, and has a long road to recovery.

[Victoria Watcher]

A man fell from the Goldstream trestle today.

We just received an update from the family. They say he is alive, and has a long road to recovery.

 

 

Person injured at Niagara Falls in Goldstream Park

 

 

A person was taken to hospital from Goldstream Provincial Park after falling at Niagara Falls on Saturday morning. B.C. Emergency Health Services said that it dispatched two units to Niagara Falls in Goldstream Park shortly before 10:30 a.m.

 

 

https://www.timescol...am-park-9278916

 

 

Niagara Falls in Goldstream Provincial Park is 47.5 metres tall, according to B.C. Parks.

 

It’s unclear at what height the person had fallen from, ­Davidson said.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 July 2024 - 05:08 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Section of Tillicum Road fully closed as crews battle house fire: Saanich Police

 

https://www.cheknews...police-1217438/

 

 

[Victoria Watcher]

 

https://www.google.c...05410&entry=ttu

[Mike K.]

Video: https://fb.watch/tLpSXN75T5/?

[Victoria Watcher]

2017:

 

 

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(2988 Tillicum Road)

 

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2013:

 

Christmas has come early & priced to sell... $398,888. This 4bdrm 3bth 2300sqft 3 level Charming Character home offers huge potential. Built in 1917 & then converted in 1947 to a upper & a lower suite. This home was used as a single family dwelling with a great basement for teens or inlaws. The main floor features kitchen with newer appliances, living room with classic feature fireplace & formal dining room with built-in bar. Upstairs you will find master bedroom, 2 additional bedrooms & 3 piece bathroom. Just steps away from shopping, movie theater, bust stops & walking trails. Call for you private showing today! HD Photo's, VT's and Floor plans online. Merry Christmas!!

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 August 2024 - 08:46 AM.

[Mike K.]

It sounds like there had been a very serious incident at a construction site on Skirt Mountain.

[Mike K.]

Terrible. From the RCMP:

On September 25, at approximately 12:50 p.m. West Shore RCMP attended a call of an unresponsive male at a construction site located near the 1400 block of Pinehurst Place in Langford.

Police and BC Emergency Health Services attended the scene and applied life-saving measures. Unfortunately, the victim, who was a construction site employee in his mid-20’s, succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

Work Safe BC as well as the BC. Coroner’s Service have been advised. Police are continuing their investigation and no further details are available at this time as efforts are underway to notify the family of the deceased.

West Shore RCMP extends their condolences to the friends and family of the deceased man.

[LJ]

There was a large blast at that time, probably the cause, too much of a charge used. The same problem has occurred before without fatalities.

[Mike K.]

This incident involved a crane, not blasting. You may have heard a blast but it would have been unrelated.

I heard what happened and it was terribly tragic. It has impacted the other workers, the developer and anyone involved on that site.