Cyclist with broken arm rescued from Myra Canyon trestles near Kelowna

Central Okanagan Search and Rescue had to delay its general meeting yesterday, Sept. 16, in order to rescue a woman with a broken arm from Myra Canyon near Kelowna.

It was their 80th task performed this year, just shy of the record of 84 call outs set last year, according to a release from the rescue group.

The woman was cycling on Trestle 8 of the KVR rail line when her bike slipped off the wooden riding surface and she fell shoulder first into the support ties.

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“She was walking towards the Myra trailhead parking lot holding her broken arm when she was met by our e-bike team," search and rescue president Brad Trites said in the release.

Those first on the scene stabilized the arm then two paramedics arrived with an all-terrain vehicle to take her back to the parking area. She was taken by ambulance to Kelowna General Hospital.

This is the rescue groups’s 64th year in operation.

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