Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 local Init tin 2000 damage continued from Page a1 and it will be left to future councils to repair the damage done to our City in Light of the tax reduction moist the double Salvo coming from both the management and labour Side at City Hall paints a vastly different budget picture than the one portrayed by Mur who has boasted taxes Are being Cut with no negative Murray lowered taxes by two per cent last year and is proposing similar cuts in each of the next two the Sav Ings on a Home assessed at amount to a the tax cuts Are being achieved partly through cuts to departmental but the mayor has said the budget pre serves existing including swimming wading skating libraries and other recreation pro moist said there has been a steady Stream of service reductions Over the last 10 and the drive to lower property taxes has accelerated the the number of City workers at swimming athletic facilities and other services has been steadily Cut Over the he were seeing the death of services by a thousand moist civic he has increased pressure on staff and the Union has seen an increasing number of its members placed on Lon term Dis ability because of of the workers represented by More than 600 Are on disability moist Kalcsics said his depart ment can no longer afford to administer the cites share of a five year Effort to renovate intercity Homes and the initiative costs his department a which is not the property department has a Broad mandate that includes Selling and buying building the maintenance of safety and property standards through plan approvals for new plan Winnipeg and a dozen other fun Dan chairman of the property and development said he would respond to Kalcsics con Cerns Kalcsics said in an interview the Bud get crunch has prevented his department from tackling critical issues affecting development growth in the and staff shortages mean the City could face lawsuits if it fails to enforce bylaws or other regulations that result in he Kalcsics said he put his concerns on the table because weve got to talk about what we Are saying please be aware of these issues when you pass the there is much interest in a tax but on the other please understand there Are child deaths continued from Page a1 for it evaluates whether there was adequate support from social workers to help the children and examines the youngsters Home lives crucial factors in deter mining whether children in Caie sur if a proper audit of the system is sometimes we can find out what went said if the reports Are not then the effectiveness of them is Mirwald said the reports Are also helpful in showing what agencies Are doing she said she did not know How far the cases in question Date Thambirajah the provinces chief medical could not be reached for Mirwald said unless something is the backlog will a recent review completed by the department of family services and housing found that about five new cases per month Are reported to the chief medical examiners office requiring a Section 10 each Case required an average of 11 Days to there is Only one investigator in the office who works on the meaning Only two of the five cases reported each month can be leaving about 60 per cent Justice minister Gord whose department is responsible for the chief medical examiners said additional resources will Likely be made available in next Springs Bud its important that the province be Able to identify systemic problems so they can be Mackintosh Mackintosh said the office was underfunded by the previous tory this has been building for nine Mirwald says staffing shortages Are delaying investigations into the deaths of children in government Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press said Mackintosh of the Back this int the first time concerns Over the Lack of within the chief medical examiners office have been an Independent review in 1998 found that Lack of resources can delay toxicology reports As much As 18 the review said stress Levels and workloads Are High and training programs for staff Are virtually non earlier this the nip increased funding to the office by the office has a budget of about Mil Mirwald also noted in her report that children in care Are moved too creating instability in their in one a three year old child had nine different in other children and Foster parents have had five Dif Ferent social workers in one there needs to be More continue said inferno continued from Page a1 parrys gifts 3button available in charcoal and Camel made with 100 Loro Piana by Arnold Cashmere sports jacket who love a gift from Harry Rosen since time is a rare commodity during this our sales associates Are at your service with expert advice and our gift wrapping service of lilies the Sun who prefers the shopping experience first a gift card May be in any at one of our stores or online at Harry Rosen com when the firefighters arrived at the House they never imagined that they be facing one of the worst hazards of their Dusablon approached the Charleswood Home late tuesday afternoon with All the windows were blackened from Dusablon noticed an upstairs window that had cracked and smoke was billowing Dusablon and his Captain from station 18 broke through a window and opened the front then Dusablon found himself inside the burning Home head ing up the stairs because they believed the fire was on the second impenetrable smoke was you see an Inch in front of your Dusablon by this Dusablon Bob had joined the pair were feeling their Way up the All the while hanging on to the Hose that is a firefighters youve got to hang on to your Hose and know where out Dusablon the two firefighters stumbled through what they called clutter which turned out to be the homeowners collectible Knickknacks and checked the upstairs but they still haunt found the fires the fire is heard still under invest was dal i Dusablon was on bail Ball the stairs when his Hose kinked and Glenn Wagner by that the backup pumper from station 19 had Wagner and his Al carried in the backup Wagner said he passed the Hose to Dusablon and he recalled the four of them were All within a metre of each in feeling with my Wagner this one was absolutely then it started getting hotter a lot we started its real hot in lets get out Dusablon Wagner heard the that when the flashover Ken Deputy chief of the Winnipeg fire paramedics said flashover Are common and pose great danger to Sim said when combustibles in a room Are heated to a certain tem an inferno is flashover happen in fires the world even the International Organiza Tion for standardization Iso has a definition the rapid transition to a state of total surface involvement in a fire of combustible materials within a com but Dusablon has a better one every where youre standing turns to Wagner watched the fireball lurch towards and Over the fire rolled around the Down the stairs and the whole Stair All i heard was bail bail bail Wagner but its hard to run when you cant see anything or the heat was so intense that Dusablon thought his coat was on Orange inferno instinctively he aimed the Hose at the Orange it flashed again and i had to run through flames to get Dusablon Wagner looked frantically for Breck Man after the inferno but unknown to Breckman had been thrown Back into a he punched out a window and crawled out on to an overhang where other fire fighters brought him Down Wagner went Down the but his mask Hose caught on a railing and it pulled the mask from his scorching toxic fumes entered his lungs before he clumsily replaced his i was Kinda i was think i dont want to die like he crouched and headed for some Light coming from the front i knew if i stood up i melt my wag Ner arms reached into the smoke and dragged Wagner Snow and water were poured on that when he noticed hed singed his Dusablon followed Wagner Down the but he became disoriented in the thick smoke and went another at one Point he opened a door and entered a All four eventually got 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