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UPDATE: Mock urban search around KGH

UPDATE: Mock urban search around KGH | iNFOnews.ca

KELOWNA – All the activity in the neighbourhood around Kelowna General Hospital on Saturday was a dress rehearsal for the volunteers with Central Okanagan Search and Rescue.

The team conducted a mock urban search within a 15-block radius of the hospital.

Search and rescue members were walking, bike riding and driving around the neighbourhood, while rescue boats travelled up and down the shoreline on Okanagan Lake.

They were looking for a possible missing person or persons. 

“We were practicing our standard search patterns and plans,” COSAR vice president Duane Tresnich said.

The searchers tweeted the exercise live at @okrescue.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Howard Alexander at halexander@infotelnews.ca or call 250-491-0331. To contact the editor, email mjones@infotelnews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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– This story was updated at 3:59 p.m., Saturday, April 12, 2014 to add photo and Storify.

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Howard Alexander

Howard Alexander

Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.

Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.

He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.

If you have an event to share contact Howard at 250-309-5343or email halexander@infonews.ca.

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