Shaping up to be busy winter for Central Okanagan Search and Rescue
was called to the Kelowna Nordic Ski and Snowshoe area to extract an injured skier.
“A COSAR member was skiing on her own when she spotted the fallen woman and used her Zoleo emergency locator beacon to call 911,” COSAR said in a press release. “She then called the Nordic groomer operator and got him to bring up the cat to help extract the subject.”They met with the rest of the COSAR team at the main cabin, where the woman was given pain medication and transferred the subject to a waiting ambulance.
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