Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 28, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july dated safety measures fail in Blaze by Nelle Oosterom firewalls which did not extend to the highly flammable insulation and inadequately sealed rooms severely hampered firefighters efforts in battling a Blaze at a Portage la Prairie storage Plant during the says the cites fire Mcdonald said Westip storage would never pass current provincial tire although the 21yearold building was constructed according to regulations in effect when it was erect uncovered styrofoam to six to eight inches lined the Walls of half of the he styrofoam Burns very hot and very Ken tree press fast and releases copious quantities of noxious you cant get close to a fire like me said research into the effects of styrofoam insulation has resulted in a ban on its use in buildings of this Type now under the buildings firewalls stopped at the leaving a space Between the ceiling and the which allowed the fire to jump Over the he at one Point about 3 Satur Day we thought we had the fire under we were working on the roof when part of the roof collapsed and then we realized the firewalls didst go All the Way Mounds of cans litter area where firefighters think fire Kissinger Call Shah Friend continued from Page 1 Henry called the dead Man a Good Friend of the United states who stood by seven presidents Over 35 years of his Rule and died abandoned by All his friends except president Nixon and his Soninlaw Edward Cox left new York last night to attend the extraordinary Security precautions were expected to prevent assassination an iranian emigre in Washington reported three weeks ago that about 20 iranian extremists were infiltrating Egypt to kill relatives and associates of the Shah when they assembled for his the Shah had been under treatment for Lymphatic cancer since but his condition did not deteriorate noticeably until last nine months after the revolution drove him from on March 28 of this year his cancer Ous spleen was but the Dis ease had spread to his and he was Given he also developed an abscess on his pancreas and other Egypt official Middle East news Agency said the pancreatic abscess began Haemorrhaging saturday night and he died at Winnipeg time yesterday As a result of Shock to the circulatory system caused by a general deterioration in his a on the team treating him said the cause of death was collection of fluid that caused swelling around the at the bedside when he died were the Shah third former Empress Farah 41 their older former Crown Prince 19 their three other Princess 17 Prince Ali and Princess 10 the Shah twin Princess and Ardeshir his for Mer ambassador to the United states and former firefighters could Only enter the burning building through two he metres was the deepest they could Mcdonald said he order his men to go into most areas of the Structure because he feared the wooden pallets which held packages of Frozen food and cans would collapse and Bury a one of the major problems we had was that the place was completely jammed with products which were piled quite it was difficult to move about and the thick smoke made it impossible to he said some Walls were improperly holes drilled for new pipes were made too Large and were sealed with fibreglass insulation instead of allowing a fire to jump to the next he said the newer Manitoba fire established in 1977 and currently under would take care of prob lems such As these if it were in William owner of Westco storage the chiefs allegations saying fio one is at was cleared i dont feel 1 am negligent in any it was built according to safety it was cleared by the provincial fire Manitoba fire inspector Odette said the building did meet fire Stan Dards in effect at the time it was but would make no further he said he is still investigating the Glesby also said fears that a holding tank containing located in a room on the Side of the would explode were the it looks like a has a safety the Seal melts when the temperature gets too High and the ammonia slowly disperses into the at that safety valve opened by but they the fire department didst know the fire chief and ramp Ron Kingdon confirmed that the tank had a safety the fire chief said the precaution of evacuating the Northeast Section of town was taken in Case the safety valve firefighters released the valve manually at not know ing whether there was any ammonia in the yesterday morning the tank was found to be need to evacuate disputed continued from Page 1 a Good they were very there was no fooling it was a lot better than waiting for worse to Hap people were told to stay away for the wearing Gas masks and braving intense firefighters were Able to reach the ammonia tank and open the valves at officials disagreed on whether this was necessary the valves Are designed to release the Gas when pressure builds up in the the Retar dates Many of whom Are crippled and cannot be moved had to be bused a second time to the Canadian forces base at Portage la where they bunked for the people slept in at friends in hotels and in the provincial government building which was turned into an open the second and final Safe Tore turn order was made at yesterday although firefighters were still pouring water into the smouldering and thick belches of smoke occasionally drifted across the Glesby estimated the including compressors and could reach the building was pan of the warehouse was built 21 years but the Large portion was Only a year the steel beams were twisted from the and everywhere were the telltale signs of a facility jammed with food French Fries dribbled from the Walls where firefighters had made holes to get at the a Mountain of blackened cans poked into the Glesby said he will rebuild the Plant at a Cost of a few million possibly on a new although it May take a year to re he plans to be Back in business immediately by using railway cars on the adjacent tracks for temporary Stor inadequate firewalls caused flames to spread and hampers efforts to extinguish the firefighters Battle heavy smoke while trying to bring fire at Westco storage under olympics winners see Reward in different ways by James Lawton up news service Moscow ethiopian minuts yifter was always certain to win the metres Here tonight the fascination was in seeing How Lasse Viren handled would he fight or would he slip away into the a great Man who had lingered too Long at the Centre of the action Viren gave the answer four laps from hitting the front almost certainly for the last time on an olympic the finnish flags unfurled in the Lenin almost certainly the worlds wealthiest Village police was going with immense he seemed broken last week he seemed a broken Man in the qualifying Only because of the collapse of irishman John tonight he was saying i knew the Odds were great against but i thought if i could apply pressure then i might have a runners must Al ways have their who at five feet and 117 pounds seems to skim the skewered the dream on the first Bend of the last Lap and he was followed Home by Fin lands Kaarlo Anninka and ethiopians Mohammed Kedir and Kolossa Kotu Viren came in nearly eight seconds behind whose was four adrift of the olympic record and 20 seconds Ott the would the times Are a olympics care Home fire kills 23 Bradley a some of the 23 people killed in a Rooming House fire May have been saved if the mentally retarded Resi dents were taught More avenues of escape during fire an emergency official authorities said Many of the victims of the saturday night fire were found locked in their rooms where they retreated after being unable to get to the front the escape route they had been taught every door i kicked 1 found a said firefighter Jeffrey ral the Blaze in the Brinley a four Storey wooden stucco was accompanied by an officials said yesterday it May take sever Al Days to determine the the new Jersey state arson squad is participating in the there were 38 residents inside the Rooming House at the time of the about half were mentally retarded and some of the others were former patients at Marlboro state psychiatric said Jeff a Case worker for the state division of mental Many were also Gene director of Monmouth county first Aid said there were two fire drills a month at the building but residents were Only shown How to get out the front the fire escape is in the Back of the he said the fire might not have killed As Many if residents Learned an alter Nate escape they went to the front door As they been he youve got mentally retarded slow think if you show them two or three what do they remember if you show them one Samuel said he had been Laid to use the fire escape if Here were flames on the stairs of the 15 surviving one Jenny was in Sta ble condition in Hospital and the others were housed in nearby Rooming two employees in the building at the time of the fire also i thought i might go for the olympic record at one stage but then i decided simply to run for the the this is what the olympics is i was surprised Viren was so he is a great yifter is father of eight and could fairly be said to be on an upward when emperor Haile Selassie was lifters As a court was there was also the bitter disappoint ment of the african Boycott of Montre yifter returning Home on the Day of the opening tonight he was asked if he would compete in los and he asked will there be an olympic games in los Angeles but there was no urgency in his you could see a sense of being cheated draining away from Daley the new olympic decathlon does not ignore the principles of old Avery the self indulgent american millionaire who liked his athletes poor when he was president of the he buries when i asked a 22year old Black londoner who makes Liberace and Muhammad Ali seem like retiring How he intended to exploit his Gold he said i dont have any details you give me Blue anything that makes me a of yes does he intend to compete in los Angeles of did he not see a rather big conflict not these Steve Ovett scarcely dented Thomp sons optimism when he declared the decathlon is nine Mickey mouse events followed by a bad says dont ill make a How to break out of therm Cally sealed atmosphere of the 22nd olympiad Pete the celebrated american sports writer and horseracing tend an afternoon with the nags at the he thought be had pulled off a Nice coup until he collected his winnings two or four dollars i figure they pay from the Back and that 90 per cent goes to the the sys said British sportswriter Hugh seems to be that it costs 80 copes to get in and 50 roubles to get it just confirms that winning is always but losing is the same the world who landed the worlds top Perfecta bet in Florida earlier this year from a Wager is planning to return on Friday with a new sys there races on the usual in the betting Hall the ceiling is Betti fully the girls who take the bets do their additions on an but it beats the hell out of Peru begins new Era Lima a a fragile Experiment in much of latin returns to Peru after 12 years today with the inauguration of president Fer Nando Belaunde Rosalynn wife of the three other latin american presidents and Spain pome minister headed the 700 guests invited to the House of representatives for the inauguration of the 67yearold Texas educated architect who lost the Job in 1968 when leftist generals escorted him out of the National Palace and into nine years of exile the coup was led by Gen Juan Verasco who declared a socialist a Tion Alist government to spearhead a revolution of the armed Verasco was overthrown in 1975 by Francisco Morales a More pro Western officer under whom the country again chose Belaunde As president in elections May Belaunde won a five year term by receiving 40 per cent of the votes in a Field we Are in Lima to celebrate one dramatic new dimension in the Ameri Cas the rebirth of democracy in mrs Carter said yesterday at a luncheon Given by colombian president Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala i ;