Search and Rescue

North Shore Rescue members spent almost nine hours searching for and rescuing a hiker off of Pump Peak on Sunday, November 27, 2023. (North Shore Rescue/Facebook)

Hiker rescued off snowy B.C. peak after 9-hour overnight effort

Man fell down multiple 5-metre cliffbands and had no cell phone to call for help, SAR says

 

North Shore Rescue members used a helicopter and night vision goggles to help hoist a lost hiker off of a steep incline near Squamish on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. (North Shore Rescue)

Hiker rescued near Squamish after making 911 call moments before phone died

Man would have become ‘very hypothermic’ had he been stuck overnight, says North Shore Rescue

 

Campbell River Search and Rescue volunteers practice navigating/searching in the bush at night during a recent Tuesday night training session. Photo: Campbell River Search and Rescue/Facebook

Campbell River Search and Rescue volunteers locate missing mushroom picker

‘Four hours of bushwhacking through wet, dense, forest and traversing old logging roads’

 

North Shore SAR rescued a hiker off a cliffside near Mount Fromme late on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 5), after the man followed a Google Maps trail that doesn’t exist. Google removed the trail off its maps app on Nov. 6, 2023. (North Shore Search and Rescue)

Hiker rescued off B.C. cliffside after taking non-existent Google Maps trail

North Shore SAR says no path exists from Mount Fromme to Kennedy Falls

North Shore SAR rescued a hiker off a cliffside near Mount Fromme late on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 5), after the man followed a Google Maps trail that doesn’t exist. Google removed the trail off its maps app on Nov. 6, 2023. (North Shore Search and Rescue)
The fallen hiker and his partner were taken to safety by a long-line rescue. (RMSAR/Special to The News)

Climber survives 20-storey B.C. park plunge by clinging to snowbank

Woman suffers 70m fall in Golden Ears Mountains, rescued by Maple Ridge team

The fallen hiker and his partner were taken to safety by a long-line rescue. (RMSAR/Special to The News)
On Sept. 5, volunteers from the CVSAR gathered at a fundraiser hosted by Thierry Vrain organized to thank the former for their role in saving his life. (Photo from Bob Wells’s Facebook page)

Rescued Island man raised more than $33,000 for Search and Rescue

Thierry Vrain and his wife grateful for the generosity of the Comox Valley community

On Sept. 5, volunteers from the CVSAR gathered at a fundraiser hosted by Thierry Vrain organized to thank the former for their role in saving his life. (Photo from Bob Wells’s Facebook page)
Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue train in Golden Ears Mountains. In 2022, SAR teams across B.C. responded to 1,510 incidents.(Photo courtesy of RMSAR)

More than 1,700 people saved by B.C. search and rescue in 2022

Association projecting annual incidents to increase in coming years

Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue train in Golden Ears Mountains. In 2022, SAR teams across B.C. responded to 1,510 incidents.(Photo courtesy of RMSAR)
Sx Penticton search and rescue specialists and a Topflight helicopter had the difficult task of recovering the body of a hiker on McIntyre Bluffs in OK Falls. (Penticton & District Search & Rescue photo)

Hiker’s body recovered from mountain above Okanagan Falls

Penticton Search and Rescue along with a helicopter had the difficult task of recovery

Sx Penticton search and rescue specialists and a Topflight helicopter had the difficult task of recovering the body of a hiker on McIntyre Bluffs in OK Falls. (Penticton & District Search & Rescue photo)
A 442 Squadron Cormorant helicopter extracts a hiker from Landslide Lake in Strathcona Park west of Campbell River Sunday, Aug. 20. Photo by Amber Gargus

442 Squadron helicopter called in to extract injured Strathcona Park hiker

Daylight hours were waning and Campbell River Search and Rescue calls for military help

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A 442 Squadron Cormorant helicopter extracts a hiker from Landslide Lake in Strathcona Park west of Campbell River Sunday, Aug. 20. Photo by Amber Gargus
Bernard Cloutier with some of his rescuers from Penticton Search and Rescue who saved the hiker from the Cathedral Lakes Park fire. (Submitted)

‘Frying into bacon for bears’: Penticton hiker saved from Crater Creek inferno

Bernand Cloutier grateful to Penticton search and rescue who performed the dramatic rescue

Bernard Cloutier with some of his rescuers from Penticton Search and Rescue who saved the hiker from the Cathedral Lakes Park fire. (Submitted)
Search and Rescue units were seen at the boat launch on the shores of Harrison Lake. KHSAR volunteers responded to a float plane incident on Monday afternoon. (Photo/Deanna Fortin Jones)

2 rescued after float plane crashed, sank into Harrison Lake

Occupants taken to safety before Search and Rescue arrived

Search and Rescue units were seen at the boat launch on the shores of Harrison Lake. KHSAR volunteers responded to a float plane incident on Monday afternoon. (Photo/Deanna Fortin Jones)
Central Okanagan had its busiest month ever in June. (COSAR/Submitted)

Record breaking number of search and rescues in Central Okanagan

In 69 years of searching, July 2023 was COSAR’s busiest month ever

Central Okanagan had its busiest month ever in June. (COSAR/Submitted)
RCMP officers were at Hurlburt Park Wednesday, July 26, 2023, two days after a fishing boat capsized on Okanagan Lake and the man driving the boat did not surface. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)

Kayaker and boat captain missing on Okanagan lakes

2 separate vessels capsized on Okanagan and Kalamalka lakes have not resurfaced following storm

RCMP officers were at Hurlburt Park Wednesday, July 26, 2023, two days after a fishing boat capsized on Okanagan Lake and the man driving the boat did not surface. (Brendan Shykora - Morning Star)
RCMP officers were at Hurlburt Park on Wednesday, July 26, two days after a fishing boat capsized on Okanagan Lake and the man driving the boat did not surface. (Brendan Shykora/Morning Star)

UPDATE: Kayaker and boat captain still missing on Okanagan lakes

2 separate vessels capsized on Okanagan and Kalamalka lakes have not resurfaced following storm

RCMP officers were at Hurlburt Park on Wednesday, July 26, two days after a fishing boat capsized on Okanagan Lake and the man driving the boat did not surface. (Brendan Shykora/Morning Star)
In this photo provided by Grupomar/Atun Tuny, Australian Tim Shaddock has is blood pressure taken after being rescued by a Mexican tuna boat in international waters, after being adrift with his dog for three months. Haddock and his dog Bella were aboard his incapacitated catamaran Aloha Toa some 1,200 miles from land when they were rescued. (Grupomar/Atun Tuny via AP)

Australian man and his dog rescued by Mexican tuna boat after drifting 3 months in the Pacific Ocean

An Australian sailor who had been adrift at sea with his dog…

In this photo provided by Grupomar/Atun Tuny, Australian Tim Shaddock has is blood pressure taken after being rescued by a Mexican tuna boat in international waters, after being adrift with his dog for three months. Haddock and his dog Bella were aboard his incapacitated catamaran Aloha Toa some 1,200 miles from land when they were rescued. (Grupomar/Atun Tuny via AP)
Paraglider Jack Pincus, centre, from the Comox Valley and rescuers Dave Potter from Totem Tree Service, right, and a member of Alberni Valley Rescue Society are flown away from Mount Irwin by Ascent Helicopters after Pincus was rescued from the top of a 35-metre Douglas fir. (PHOTO COURTESY DAVE POTTER)

Alberni Search and Rescue calls on tree climber to help stuck paraglider

Comox Valley paraglider ‘unlucky’ on long weekend launch

Paraglider Jack Pincus, centre, from the Comox Valley and rescuers Dave Potter from Totem Tree Service, right, and a member of Alberni Valley Rescue Society are flown away from Mount Irwin by Ascent Helicopters after Pincus was rescued from the top of a 35-metre Douglas fir. (PHOTO COURTESY DAVE POTTER)
Crews begin repairs to a washed-out section of Highway 170 in Rivière-Éternité, Que., Sunday, July 2, 2023. The search for two people swept away by a landslide in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region is stretching into a third day. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Police divers find two bodies after Quebec landslide

Residents of Rivière-Éternité were forced to leave their homes after a weekend storm

Crews begin repairs to a washed-out section of Highway 170 in Rivière-Éternité, Que., Sunday, July 2, 2023. The search for two people swept away by a landslide in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region is stretching into a third day. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Crews begin repairs to a washed-out section of Highway 170 in Rivière-Éternité, Que., Sunday, July 2, 2023. The search for two people swept away by a landslide in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region is stretching into a third day. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Search stretches into third day for two people missing after Quebec landslide

Rescue teams looking for unidentified man and woman in their 40s missing in Rivière-Éternité

Crews begin repairs to a washed-out section of Highway 170 in Rivière-Éternité, Que., Sunday, July 2, 2023. The search for two people swept away by a landslide in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region is stretching into a third day. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Esther Wang walked out of the trail after she went missing for 54 hours in Golden Ears Provincial Park. (Estherwangvolleyball - Instagram/Special to The News)

B.C. teen missing in Golden Ears Provincial Park credits air cadets and god for finding her way home

Esther Wang was missing for 54 hours before walking out of the woods on her own

Esther Wang walked out of the trail after she went missing for 54 hours in Golden Ears Provincial Park. (Estherwangvolleyball - Instagram/Special to The News)
An Ascent Helicopters rotor aircraft lifts off on Canada Day 2023 to assist Alberni Valley Rescue Society volunteers and Totem Tree Service with rescuing a paraglider stuck in a tree. (AVRS INSTAGRAM PHOTO)

Alberni Valley Rescue Society volunteers responding to paraglider stuck in tree

New helicopter hoist team works with Ascent Helicopters, Totem Tree arborists

An Ascent Helicopters rotor aircraft lifts off on Canada Day 2023 to assist Alberni Valley Rescue Society volunteers and Totem Tree Service with rescuing a paraglider stuck in a tree. (AVRS INSTAGRAM PHOTO)