Search and rescue crews help Okanagan residents with heat, heights – Okanagan | 24CA News
Central Okanagan search and rescue crews have been despatched in all instructions in the course of the lengthy weekend.
The first of two calls on Saturday noticed crews attend to a mountain biker on the Kettle Valley Railway who’d turn out to be disoriented within the warmth.
“The rider had been dropped off at the bottom of June Springs Road with the intention of mountain biking to the KVR and then home to Penticton,” COSAR officers mentioned.
“However the rider was ill prepared as he did not take any water with him and became very dehydrated and disoriented.”
A nine-person workforce retrieved the person and introduced him out to a ready ambulance.
Search supervisor Duane Tresnich mentioned he’d wish to remind riders to make sure they’re correctly ready for the warmth.
On Saturday night time, COSAR was known as to help the ambulance service at Oyama Lake Lodge, the place a person had fallen from a deck at one of many cabins on the far aspect of the lake.
He was in want of transportation to a ready ambulance, although by the point COSAR members arrived the ambulance workforce had managed the extraction and he was on path to the hospital.
Finally, on Sunday, COSAR’s canine workforce was known as out for a mutual help name aiding Penticton Search and Rescue in in search of a lacking man within the Cawston space. The results of that search has not been made obtainable.
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