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By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted February 4, 2025 3:53 pm
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Fresh snowfall connected B.C. mountains comes with avalanche risks
A antheral has been earnestly injured successful an avalanche connected Vancouver Island and required the rescue chopper to alert him straight to infirmary for treatment.
Metro Vancouver-based North Shore Rescue says successful a societal media station that the antheral was partially buried successful a descent successful the backcountry adjacent the Mount Cain skis country connected bluish Vancouver Island connected Sunday.
North Shore Rescue, which was asked to help, says the unfortunate was hypothermic and had aggregate injuries.
A unit from Metro Vancouver made their mode successful a helicopter, portion section rescuers hiked to the victim, and some decided that the idiosyncratic needed to beryllium taken to Vancouver General Hospital, 360 kilometres away, fixed the seriousness of his injuries.
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North Shore Rescue says its chopper landed astatine the hospital, giving the unfortunate “immediate access” to trauma attraction and surgeons to dainty his injuries.
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Avalanche Canada confirmed the descent connected its website, showing successful a study that 3 radical were successful the radical erstwhile the avalanche struck, and 1 idiosyncratic was “partly buried with impaired breathing.”
North Shore Rescue says it was the archetypal clip 1 of its helicopters has been capable to alert a unfortunate straight to the helipad astatine Vancouver General Hospital aft precocious being granted that quality by wellness authorities.
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