Feo Ons iod ita wee get tat a. Oran eh eit crote paratbaind stn an re em, Sesion, wR es eA ume ee age tt etn t t ‘member of the group headed down off the mountain-to phone for help. He made the journcy to the parking lot, which normally takes an hour, in 45 minutes, alerting other snowmobilers in the area on the way. In the meantime, the three remaining. snowmobilers ran to the "toc" of the slide, which had spilled out onto the lake. Part of a snowmobile was visible on the west side of the toe, and thit’s where the search began. The trio was soon joined by other snow- mobilers who were on the moun- tain and had been told what had happened. In 4 short time, there were about 12. people at the scene. “They chopped branches and small trees and used them for probes," says Sweeting. "They had themselves organized into a probe line... they probed up and came back. They did 100 percent with what they had... which was. nothing. And they continued that until we got up there." But it was to no avail. Their make-shift probes were inadequate and their friends were lost. The RCMP were told of the avalanche just before 5 p.m. and emergency procedures went into effect quickly. Search and Res- cue was notified. Sweeting alerted the snowmobile club, his most important resource for all back country winter rescuc, and headed for the parking lot at the base of: the mountain. At‘ the - same time, search team member Terry Myhr picked up the Search and .. - Rescue communications Zz. ‘Tervac ¢ Review — Wednesday, January 8, 1992 Ss Nn owm O bi [ les . Continued fice — : truck and headed - out to join Swecting. — RCMP dog handler Cpl. Lothar Bretfeld and his dog Echo arrived at the scene within min- utes, By 5:30 p.m. he was sitting behind a snowmobile club mem- ber, holding. Echo in front of him, on his way to the scene. A team of eight volunteer rescuers left the parking lot about 15 minutes later. Included in that team was Tertace fire- fighter Dean Tetreau who would serve as an on-site paramedic. Another team of 12 headed for the top of the mountain at 6:45 p.m. This team included two Ministry of Highways avalanche technicians, Al Evenchick and Kevin Christakos, who had vol- unteered their expertise to assist in the search. A third avalanche expert, Rod Gee of CNR, assisted Sweeting at the base of the mountain. Later that evening a B.C. Tele- phone technician opened their repeater station on top of Copper ‘Mountain, where Search and Rescue officials were operating a relay radio communications system. But it was a difficult journey to the scene. The terrain was rough on the ridge, temperatures were well below freezing, and winds of 50 to 70 kilometres per hour kicked up spindrift creating whiteout conditions. Evenchick says the one hour trip took two. - Evenchick arrived at the scene: of the avalanche at about the same time as snowmobile club member Adolf Lubke. 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An hour later, Bretfeld and Echo found Turner about 300 feet away on the opposite side of the Slide and about 120 feet up the slope from his snowmobile. He too was under about 2-1/2 feet of snow. Due to darkness and weather, says Sweeting, it was too-dan- JT gerous to remove the bodies © Friday night. Instead, Evenchick and Bretfeld returned to the site the next afternoon, following a morning attempt by snowmobile © that was turned back by poor weather. Following an investigation of the site Sunday, Evenchick said strong southwesterly winds dur- ing the previous week had blown snow from the top of the ridge to the upper portion of the ‘northeasterly facing slope. He said the stability of the deposit was improving, but it had not § improved to the point where it was safe. For this reason, triggered. by the snowmobilers ‘themselves. He explained that a large slab of snow about 400 metres across on a slope ranging. between 24 and 38 degrees had broken loose from the underly- ing layer and was resting on a gentler, 17-degree slope about two-thirds of the way from the top. about. that point, the fractured slab broke loose and travelled, with Dobler and Turner, about — 157 metres down a 27-degrec slope to the edge of the lake. He said the deposit of snow and ice at the bottom of the slope was relatively shaliow, ranging between one and two metres. Evenchick added that snow-— mobilers are aware of small avalanches on the slope, but one of that size had never been witnessed before. The area was considered to be relatively safe. He was ‘buried under about 2% -feet of. snow approximately six feet Evenchick @ said, the avalanche was probably As Turner began his turn at It’s been a relatively quiet week for Terrace B.C. Ambulance Ser- vice paramedics. There were no call-outs to motor vehicle:acci-' . ‘dents. A total of 19 responses included five transfers in and out of Mills Memorial Hospital, eight medical emergencies and six cases -of trauma. Of the trauma calls, three were to Shames Mountain, and there were two incidents of people falling down stairs. If paramedics ran into any diffi- culties during the week, is was . simply experiencing delays in finding homes where an emergen- ° - cy situation was taking place. ~The problem in locating homes “ds normally one of two things. The’ caller gave the wrong address, or the house number is not clearly — displayed. The latter is most com- mon. 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