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is HUNTER CORRIGAL

_{ Says the award he was given ~
is recognizing his efforts to

I comfort a horrifically injured
€ . . :
helicopter pilot near. Terrace
it last summer is bittersweet.

;
i _ Corrigal, 26, was working
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, at a mineral exploration site’
~ on the north side of Kalum:

- Lake Aug, 2, 2005 when the
! helicopter piloted by Aus-
tralian-born Phil O'Driscoll

-+ crashed and burned as it was.

Corrigal received a cer-
i tificate of appreciation for
: bravery from _ provincial

; mines minister Bill Bennett.

-{ last December for the work
; he did to get’the pilot to a
i Safe place, administer what
: first. aid he could and com-

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‘ touching down at the site.
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fort him until a paramedic —

i crew arrived.

O’ Driscoll suffered burns »
; to more than 40 per cent of
: his body and has been recu-

. | perating in hospital in Ade- .

laide, Australia since he was
well enough to return to his

“Sitting at the head of this scorched person it was okay and all
/ could feel for him was | compassion, “d

~ Hunter Corrigal

homeland last fall.
“To be completely honest
with you, it was a little dif-

ficult to take,” Corrigal says

about receiving the award.

“Phil, the helicopter pilot
is not doing well...to be rec-
ognized is fine, but under the
circumstances it’s difficult to
accept.

“He’s still in-a- tremen-
dous amount of pain.”

Corrigal, a - geological
technician from Cranbrook,
was working for Eagle

Plains Resources, 'a mineral -

exploration company, at the
North Kalum site.
_ He says the helicopter

- was just touching ‘down at

the site when something
‘went horribly wrong.

“It came back ‘up in the.
‘air spun around then came
back down and exploded,” .
recalls Corrigal.

Shooting probe continues

oA SHOOTING that sent three people to hospital in February ° |

_ is still under investigation, local police say.

Terrace RCMP Constable’ Rochelle Patenaude said all

three people have been released from hospital.

morning hours of Feb. 7.

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- Although police said they would release more details
two or three weeks after the crime, Patenaude said ail the
required information for a thorough investigation was taking
longer to’ acquire than police had hoped.

Police responded to a complaint of' shots being fired at
the Cedar Place Apartments at 4931 Walsh Ave. in the early

Three people, all of whom were known to police, suffered
Unconfirmed reports indicated the victims include aman

believed to be in his 60s who was shot in the leg, a younger
man reportedly shot in the face and-a woman. :

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- “] jumped up and I swore
. and then I started praying.”
His» co-worker, Emery

"Garcia, was reaching up to’

open the helicopter door
when the accident happened,

he says. Garcia took*cover |

behind a rock. © ©

Corrigal, who was further

away, ran to the crash site,
as O’Driscoll was pulling
himself out of the burning
wreckage.

; Using the limited supplies
they had from first aid packs,
Corrigal and Garcia attend-

‘ed to O’ Driscoll as best they.

could before -moving him

away from the wreckage to a

safer spot where they could
» wait for the air ambulance.

“We had: little first: aid

‘packs with little patches ~ I
used everything that I could

just covering his eyes, Set- -
‘ting’him up and treating him

for shock,” Corrigal says.
Corrigal and Garcia then

" did everything they could to .

ease the pilot’s pain, though
they had no painkillers, for
two hours before the air am-
bulance arrived.

‘While the experience was
horrific, Corrigal, who grew
up attending the Alliance
church, says at no point did
he feel scared. me

“Just because of who I

am and the faith that I have,

| started praying:and for me
there was this overwhelming

peace and comfort that I just -

had to do what I could do,”
Corrigal recalls.

“Sitting at the head of this
scorched. person it was okay
and all I could feel for him
was compassion.” :

. Corrigal sat-in ‘that-po-—

sition, dripping water into
O'Driscoll’s mouth and

Faith gave miner the means
to comfort pilot after crash

making small talk in an ef-
fort to keep O’ Driscoll alert.

While he was able to
keep his composure during

the ordeal, Corrigal says the

events of that day took their

~ toll on him afterwward. -

“That kind of stuff plays
in your. mind like a movie

‘that never ends and it con-"

sumes your thoughts .in a lot
of ways,” he says. “For me, I
slept —I slept a lot.”
O'Driscoll; who remains
in and ‘out of hospital in

Australia for treatment of -
his burns, says Corrigal de- .

serves more than a medal for

looking after him as well as

he did that day.
_ “TI want to see Hunter

because he saved my life,

he kept talking to me on
the - ‘mountain,” recalls

O’Dniscoil, adding he’s also
“grateful to Garcia,
“I don’t want ‘them to =
, think I don’t appreciate
what they did for me, what. .
they’ve done for me and my

family.”

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