A Mission emergency personnel responded to a single-vehicular rollover. A 56-year old Osoyoos woman was airlifted to Royal Columbian Hospital after her vehicle flipped into a ditch that was filled with water. Timely rescue The local emergency personnel was requested to respond to the east of Lougheed Highway and Nelson Street after the motorists witnessed […]
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A 59-year old man died despite CPR after a suspected drowning. The incident occurred at Port Hood Beach in Cape Breton. Drowning incident According to Inverness County RCMP, they received a call to the beach. A man was swimming with his wife when 2 lifeguards observed that they were having difficulty. According to Paul D’Eon,
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Police officers attempted to save a man with naloxone and CPR did not wrong. This was discovered by Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU). Overdose concerns The SIU checks all deaths involving police in the province. In such cases, the officers were called to a Brampton house where they found a 36-year old man who is
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A Surrey, B.C. woman urges trampoline parks to be regulated after a frightening experience involving her 3-year old son. Better safety measures The toddler fell through the springs and onto the floor below at a park in Richmond where a father died earlier this year. Ravi Gill-Douglas’s son was at a birthday party at Extreme
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A 6-year old child who was found in a creek was given CPR. The search for a missing 6-year old child on the North Shore has ended in tragedy. Unforeseen ordeal The child was discovered facing down in Taylor Creek, not far from his family home, and died shortly after in BC Children’s Hospital. RCMP
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Alberta woman testifies daughter was cold to the touch, CPR did not revive her. The mother of a woman found dead at a house in southern Alberta says she tried to revive her with CPR but was already dead. Dorothy Medicine Crane sobbed while testifying at the manslaughter trial of her son-in-law Allen Day Rider.
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A 7-year old girl involved in a drowning incident received CPR. According to police in Nanaimo, B.C. stated that the child drowned at a popular local lake. Drowning incident According to RCMP Cpl. Ken Callaghan, a swimmer discovered the girl floating in the water for Westwood Lake, around five or six feet below the surface.
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A man who was stabbed on a B.C. basketball court received CPR. The deadly incident occurred in an elementary playground in Kamloops, B.C. Unforeseen ordeal According to RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned, the friend was searching for a bathroom when he returned to find the victim bleeding on the ground at Stuart Wood Elementary. The
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A man died despite the delivery of CPR after an all-terrain vehicle crash in the northwest of Calgary. The emergency crews were called to a rural area in the northwest of Sundre near Birch Lake for reports of a rollover. Rural crash Based on an early investigation, it indicates that two people were in a
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A Sydney man was given CPR after found unresponsive in his cell. The inmate, Zane Weatherbee was serving time for first-degree murder at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick. Unforeseen death At the time of this death, the 49-year old had been serving an indeterminate sentence since 1982. Based on a release from Correctional Service Canada,
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A man was transported to RCH after sustaining a gunshot wound. The Mission police, fire, and ambulance personnel responded to a call at Philbert Street for reports on a male suffering from a gunshot wound shortly after 3 PM. Shooting incident The victim was transported via air ambulance which landed in Mission Secondary School’s playing
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A White Rock man was saved by the rapid delivery of CPR. South Surrey’s Patrick Storoshenko was there to help. A man who was unconscious, not breathing and moments away from death. He was lucky it was Storoshenko who was within earshot in White Rock. Timely intervention to save a life Storoshenko was walking through
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The crisis teams helped families after a crash with a horse-drawn wagon. The incident occurred at Ochapowace First Nation which injured up to 15 people, mostly children. Based on the RCMP news release, Esterhazy RCMP responded to the incident. The crash occurred on a grid road off Highway 247 in the Round Lake region. Unexpected
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A toddler from Mission daycare was given CPR after she fell into a swimming pool. The Fraser Health Authority dismissed the license of a Mission daycare after the accidental drowning incident that resulted in the death of one of the children. Water safety The 23-month old girl was reported missing by the owner of Melissa’s
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A 2-year old Mission girl died after she was found unresponsive in a backyard pool despite CPR. The toddler was missing from daycare on Hawthorne Ave. The child was later discovered in the underground pool at a neighboring property, under a solar blanket. Watery ordeal According to RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve Crawford, the police received
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Five citizens were recognized for saving the life of a man with CPR who jumped off the Mission Bridge. The 5 citizens – Roger Williams, Martin Hanle, Jessie Garrison, Ron Thomas, and Heather Hanle were acknowledged by the Abbotsford Police Board for their heroic efforts. Watery ordeal They were in vehicles when they saw a
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A 23-year old man was given CPR after experiencing cardiac arrest. The incident occurred in the Byward Market parking garage. The man was quickly transported to a healthcare facility. Cardiac arrest The police found the man at the bottom of the stairs of the garage at Byward Market Square and Clarence Street shortly before midnight.
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The officers did not commit any offense. The provincial police watchdog determined that the RCMP officers did not commit any offense when a man was shot and killed at the Departure Bay ferry terminal. Doing the right thing The suspect who was being arrested shot himself in the head at the same time the 2
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A victim of a house fire received CPR. A senior was declared dead after a house fire on Dundas Street. It has been confirmed by BC Coroners Service that it is investigating the death of a woman in her 70s. The fire crews were called to the house just before 1 AM after reports of
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Dave Pineau’s wife delivered CPR on a 90-year old man who collapsed at a Winnipeg McDonald’s. The family of an elderly man who died of a heart attack after collapsing at a Winnipeg McDonald’s restaurant and those who tried to save him stated that defibrillators should be placed in restaurants. Accessibility of defibrillators According to
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