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| Photo: Jaws of Life |
The Jaws of Life function is being discussed along with it's regional costs. Lumby mayor Kevin Acton says the village is paying for the tool to
remove people from mangled cars, but not everyone within the Regional
District of North Okanagan is. He tells KISS FM, "You can imagine how many car rollovers we have in
right in Lumby. We don't have many calls for Jaws, so the general
feeling we're hearing from most of the politicians is that it should be
something that's (funded) provincial." Acton says the cost numbers don't line up with the call outs. Lumby's fire department is looking for a new truck for their Jaws equipment, at a cost of 400 thousand dollars. Acton says at 330 dollars back from the province per call, it'll be a long time before it's paid off.
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