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Search And Rescue
Spike in abandoned campfires in Kamloops Fire Centre on long weekend
KAMLOOPS – Vacationers in the region's campgrounds need to check their fires before leaving. With…
Search for missing man in Vernon ends quickly thanks to good samaritan
VERNON – A good samaritan helped shape a happy ending in the search of a…
UPDATE: Search and rescue team called off after overturned boat spotted in river near Ashcroft
KAMLOOPS – A boat floating down the Thompson River near Ashcroft had Kamloops Search and…
Armstrong hiker reported missing was ‘having a great time in the mountains’
VERNON – An Armstrong man on a solo hiking expedition in Monashee Provincial Park was…
Salmon Arm residents can aid search for missing senior by checking properties, vehicles and outbuildings
SALMON ARM – As Shuswap Search and Rescue enters its third day searching for a…
Man rescued from steep cliff near Vernon’s Turtle Mountain
VERNON – A man was rescued from a steep cliff and taken to hospital yesterday…
UPDATE: Victim identified in Summerland ATV crash and possible drowning; search suspended
SUMMERLAND – A man thrown from an ATV into a Summerland area creek on the…
Kamloops Search and Rescue: Person stranded near Ross Moore Lake in medical distress
KAMLOOPS – Search and rescue members are heading out to rescue three people who got…
Volunteers search for lost stuffed bunny in Princeton
PRINCETON – Search and rescue members took to the streets of Princeton this weekend to…
Gertie the German shepherd latest addition to Kamloops Search and Rescue team
KAMLOOPS – Local volunteers have a new search and rescue member to add to their…
Quick work by Penticton Search and Rescue to pluck injured snowmobiler from Apex
PENTICTON – An injured snowmobiler near Apex last night can count himself twice lucky. First,…
Two snowmobilers buried by avalanche north of Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – An avalanche in an area northwest of Blue River has claimed the lives…
UPDATE: Body of missing Sicamous snowmobiler recovered from avalanche slide
SICAMOUS – The search for a missing Sicamous man has ended in tragedy. The 34-year-old…
Stranded snowmobilers rescued in North Okanagan; on their own dime to retrieve sleds
"WE DON'T RESCUE SNOWMOBILES, WE RESCUE PEOPLE." NORTH OKANAGAN – A group of people exploring…
Intense mock search and rescue exercise with RCAF at Kamloops Airport
KAMLOOPS – Extinguishing fires, parachuting search and rescue technicians and the jaws of life were…
UPDATE: Sledders lost in high risk avalanche zone near Cherryville found safe
CHERRYVILLE – Half a dozen snowmobilers were located safe and sound this morning thanks to…
Military search and rescue training set to take place in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – Don’t be alarmed if you see a Buffalo or a Cormorant in the…
Stranded snowmobiler rescued in the South Okanagan
OKANAGAN FALLS – A snowmobiler stranded after going out for a ride in the Allendale…
Shuswap snowmobilers call for help after realizing ‘it was time to save themselves’
VERNON – A pair of snowmobilers in their mid-20s were very happy to see search…
Kamloops Search and Rescue nearly doubles volunteer base after memorable year
KAMLOOPS - With a wide variety of calls, including some that did not end well, it was a memorable year for local search and rescue volunteers, and with 22 new recruits now in training, 2016 is also shaping up to be a memorable year. Last year Kamloops Search and Rescue was called out on about...
Vernon Search and Rescue shatters record for number of call-outs in a year
VERNON – Vernon Search and Rescue was called upon more in 2015 than ever before…
Two snowmobilers, two separate rescues for search teams in the Shuswap
SHUSWAP - Every minute of daylight counted as search and rescue crews raced to the aid of two snowmobilers during two separate incidents in the Shuswap this week. The first call came in around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 27, with a report of an injured snowmobiler, possibly with a fractured spine, at Blue Lake near...
UPDATE: Kamloops Search and Rescue find snowmobiler near Wells Gray
KAMLOOPS - Members from the Kamloops Search and Rescue Team have found a snowmobiler who went missing near Wells Gray Provincial Park yesterday, Dec. 22. Alan Hobler, a manager with the local team, says three members travelled to Dunn Peak, a trail area east of Wells Gray Park, today, Dec. 23, to help search for...
Kamloops search manager keen to get drones approved for search and rescue missions
KAMLOOPS - They’ve been used to capture birds-eye view images and to find hotspots from a wildfire, and following a successful test run this weekend drones could soon be used on search and rescue missions in B.C. as well. Kamloops Search and Rescue and local startup Hummingbird Drones partnered on a training mission this past...