Betty Selin & Kate Bouey - Vernon 105.7 SUN FM
The call came in as a roof collapse at a senior's facility Monday morning in Vernon, fortunately the damage was not to the roof, but ceiling. Okanagan Landing Fire Chief Ed Forslund says they found a broken sprinkler pipe in the ceiling and water was leaking into the floor below. Forslund says more than 25 seniors were evacuated from the west wing of the new Creekside Landing care home. Forslund says the residents, many in wheel chairs, were taken to a part of the building deemed safe. Creekside owner Kevin Svoboda says affected residents have been moved to other areas of Creekside or to a sister facility, Heritage Square. He says even the chapel and some meeting rooms have been converted to make residents as comfortable as possible. He will be at the site Tuesday and hopes to meet with seniors and their families by Wednesday.
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Seniors evacuated CHBC VIDEO
Web posted on Tuesday, 30 December 2008
A Vernon senior’s facility was partically evacuated this morning. Not because of a collapsed roof, as many people first thought, but because of a broken sprinkler head
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