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Shed full of hay
burns down: in
McKillop
Susan Hundertnnark
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A shed full of hay on Bridge
Road just north of Seaforth
was destroyed by fire on Sat-
urday afternoon.
Seaforth firefighters re-
ceived the call at 12:50 p.m.
and when they arrived on
the scene at Bryan McClure's
McKillop farm, the building
was fully engulfed, says Dep-
uty Fire Chief Jim Sills.
"We set up to protect the
barn and the house and called
in the Clinton fire department
to help protect a new driving
shed because the heat off the
fire was going to damage the
new building," he says.
Firefighters fought the
fierce blaze all afternoon and
into the evening with 19 loads
of water trucked out to the
scene as the two fire depart-
ments fought to protect the
other buildings.
Sills says a swinghoe was
brought to the scene to re-
move the shed's roof to allow
the hay to burn.
"We tried to have a con-
trolled burn. That type of
equipment is handy in situa-
tions like this," he says.
Silas says it's not been de-
termined yet what started the
fire.
Firefighters returned from
the scene around 10 p.m.
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Angus Glew stands In front of the Seaforth Ubrary after being trapped In the library
elevator for an hour and a half when the hydro went out Thursday afternoon.
Seaforth teen trapped in library
elevator during hydro outage
Dan Schwab
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When torrential rain showers came
down in Seaforth on Thursday after-
noon, anyone caught outside was out
of luck.
But 13 -year-old Angus Glew was in-
doors and went through an ordeal of
his own — he was trapped in an eleva-
tor.
Shortly after 4 p.m., Angus and two
friends were upstairs at the Seaforth
Library looking at books when he de-
cided to go down to the main floor.
Despite hearing some thunder, Angus
hopped into the elevator, asking one of
his friends if he was going to join him
on the way down.
The friend said he'd rather take the
stairs, just in case the power went
out.
The elevator door closed with Angus
inside, and descended about two inches
before the lights went out and it came
to a complete stop. The power had gone
out.
"I thought, 'Oh crap.' This is finally
happening," says Angus. "I was ner-
vous at first. I was hoping that it wasn't
going to crash."
Two tiny backup lights went on in-
side the elevator, enough so he could
see around him.
He shouted "Hello" and realized his
friend and a library staff member could
talk to him from the other side of the
door.
Library branch manager Anne Dod-
ington was notified right away that
Angus was trapped inside the eleva-
tor.
"I came upstairs to see if he was OK,"
Dodington says. "He was very calm. I
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Secondflu
clinic planned
to respond to
H1N1 threw
Susan Hund rtLgrk
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As local healthcare professionals
prepare for the expected H1N1 pan-
demic this fall, the Huron County
Health Unit is planning two rounds
of flu clinics. •
"This is a different Au season with
two different shots for different
kinds of flu. This season more than
ever, it's important to get a flu shot,"
says Huron County's Medical Officer
of Health, Dr. Nancy Cameron.
The first flu clinics would start in
mid-October for the annual seasonal
influenza shot and the second would
likely start just before Christmas for
the H1N1 vaccine, says Cameron.
And, since two shots will likely be
necessary for H1N1, Cameron says
the H1N1 clinics will probably be
held before and after Christmas.
Cameron says the health unit and
local healthcare professionals have
been busy all summer with pandem-
ic planning.
She says the health unit will, be
meeting with, local school boards
soon •discussing ways to encourage
more infection control.
"We'll be discussing how impor-
tant it is to be washing hands more
and coughing and sneezing into our
sleeves, asking the school boards to
possibly put more of that informa-
tion into the curriculum," she says,
adding that posters will be offered to
reinforce the message.
As well, she says school boards will
be asked if it's possible to enhance
surveillance in the schools, providing
information on the numbers of stu-
dents absent and what their symp-
toms include. Currently, schools re-
port to the health unit if more than
10 per cent of the school population
is absent.
With weekly teleconferences with
the Ministry of Health around the
H1N1 pandemic, Cameron says the
federal government has ordered vac-
cines and the province has ordered a
supply for county health units.
Still undecided are the priority
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