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Avalanches are deadly. If you get caught in one, more often than not, rescuers have mere minutes to find you before the odds of survival plummet.
“If rescuers
can locate and uncover the buried person within 10 minutes, the person has an 80% chance of surviving. By 15 minutes, the survival rate drops to 40%, and after 35 minutes it’s less than 10%,” says Anne St. Clair, a public avalanche forecaster for Avalanche Canada and an instructor trainer with the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (
Brook Golling, 35, of Ashland was with a friend when they were caught in an avalanche as they were getting ready to start their run near Etna Summit in Siskiyou County on Wednesday, according to the Mount Shasta Avalanche Center.
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