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One of the busiest search and rescue outfits in B.C. hopes it's done enough to expand to meet a record number of rescues in the Central Okanagan.
Posted: May 16, 2021 2:13 PM PT | Last Updated: May 16 Crews are searching for a man who was diving with friends on Saturday near the William Bennett Bridge on Okanagan Lake when he didn't resurface.(City of West Kelowna) The RCMP dive team and volunteer search and rescue crews are looking for a diver who went missing in Okanagan Lake in Kelowna, B.C. In a written statement, RCMP said emergency crews responded to a call about a possible drowning shortly before 3 p.m. on Saturday. Officers learned that a 52-year-old man was scuba diving on the east side of the William Bennett Bridge when he ...
Image Credit: FACEBOOK/Gary Leck March 02, 2021 - 12:08 PM Big White Ski Resort workers have been displaced after a large amount of snow from a neighbouring rooftop smashing into a fourplex yesterday. Snow that accumulated from a roof slid into a fourplex on Snow Pines Road, causing significant damage to the building at roughly 5 p.m., March 1. The incident displaced 23 people who are currently being housed at the Inn at Big White, said Big White Fire Department fire chief Chris Cormack. Five other people who have been displaced are staying with friends and one is staying ...
Twenty per cent of all skiing and snowboarding fatalities involve suffocation in tree wells. Without help, people may suffocate once they become trapped and the odds of survival are low, according to Deep Snow Safety. It reports 90% of people trapped in a tree well could not rescue themselves. “If a partner is not there for immediate rescue, the skier or rider may die very quickly from suffocation - in many cases, he or she can die as quickly as someone can drown in water,” the website reported. Ed Henczel, with Central Okanagan Search and Rescue, said some of the best things to do to...
January 03, 2021 - 10:00 AM COVID-19 may have curtailed a lot of social activity but more people were prompted to head outdoors, which could be why 2020 was also the busiest year in the history of Central Okanagan Search and Rescue. In all, the team responded to 81 emergencies; historically we average 55-60 a year, Ed Henczel of COSAR said in a press release, noting that in addition to outdoor recreationalists, the team also responded to a record number of urban searches for distraught individuals and missing seniors and children. "Sadly, there were also four body recoverie...