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Rossland and area SAR help local woman ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor
Last week, Search and Rescue out of Rossland and South Columbia responded to a call out near Record Ridge. On July 25, a group of 11 ladies from Rossland had been hiking on the south end of the Seven Summits trail, when one fell and broke an ankle. “They all went in from the Cascade Summit and had headed north on the trail and
as they headed back, one of the ladies slipped on a rock and twisted her ankle, we thought at the time,� explained Graham Jones, Rossland Search and Rescue (SAR) director. “They managed to make a cell phone call out and get help started.� They received the call around 2:45 p.m. Between Rossland SAR and South Columbia SAR, a group of five rescuers could come out on the short notice. The team drove the response vehicle up to the cascade sum-
mit where some of the woman’s friends were waiting, others stayed with her. “We were able to get our response vehicle up the old logging road, which probably hasn’t had a vehicle on it in a long, long time,� he said. “We had to chainsaw a tree out of the way, luckily we had a chainsaw with us, so we could get to the trailhead of the Record Ridge Trail.� From there she was only 15 minutes away by foot and they were able to send in their med-
ical officer. Jones said one of the hikers was a member of Rossland SAR and had wilderness first aid, so she could help make the injured woman more comfortable. They wheeled her out with a outdoor stretcher. Jones said she was in a lot of pain, and assessed it as probably a very bad sprain. On the way in, the weather was especially bad, with torrential rain falling, luckily it cleared as they made their
way out. “We got her stabilized and on the stretcher, and got her back to the response vehicle,� he said. From there they took her to the Cascade Summit where the ambulance that was called in was waiting. “We transferred her to the ambulance at about 7 p.m. that evening,� he said. “Then she was taken to the hospital and it turned out that she had two broken bones. One minor, one See Local on P. 3
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