Northern Connector, November 23, 2012

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Members of Terrace Search and Rescue search a section of Whiskey Creek where Ohio tourist Warren Sill went missing in July. A full scale search in the summer was called off but area search and rescue technicians returned several times to continue searching as water levels dropped. Sill was subsequently found Nov. 17.

Missing hiker’s body is located NEW HAZELTON - New Hazelton RCMP and Search and Rescue located the body of missing hiker, Warren Andrew Sill from Ohio Nov. 16. “Thank-you to everyone who assisted in this search, your hard work and dedication is very much appreciated,” said Terrace Search and Rescue president Dwayne Sheppard. In July of this year, Sill came up from Ohio to film a documentary on the Kermode Bear, telling his family he would only be away for four or five days. New Hazelton RCMP got a call about an abandoned vehicle, which was Sill’s, at the entrance of the Whiskey Creek Trail in the Gull Creek area of New Hazelton. The biggest search, since the

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Mount Elizabeth search in 2002, began, said Sheppard. Thirteen search and rescue groups plus other groups started searching for him July 13, eight days after he went missing. “Some days we had up to 200 people [searching],” said Sheppard. After few clues were found, the search was shut down July 20. Terrace Search and Rescue said it intended to continue to look for Sills as part of training sessions. and went back to the area in August, September, and October. On November 10, Terrace SAR used rope rescue team members to lower two swiftwater rescue technicians into the canyon to search the last remaining stretches of Whiskey Creek. The members found a green

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WARREN SILL shirt frozen into debris in the creek; the shirt had a logo and part of a name, which the team found out was someone Sills knew. On Nov. 14, the team looked upstream but found noth-

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On Nov. 16, Terrace Search and Rescue members took rope rescue and swiftwater equipment out again. The members lowered themselves into the creek and went about 75 metres downstream. After lowering themselves through a chute and swimming across a pool, the team arrived at the remaining unsearched area, about 50m below where the tshirt was found. Approximately 35 m below a waterfall was a debris jam of logs, sticks and rocks. At approximately 12:30 p.m., search and rescue members found Sill’s remains inside the debris jam. His body was removed and handed over to the provincial coroner. For more details, see page 6.

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