*** Search Manager Assists Long-Distance Rescue ***

From: Mike Hannah  mike_hannah@sunshine.net
To:   sarinfo@istar.ca
Date:  29th July 1997

On the evening of July 23 1997, the Sunshine Coast Search and 
Rescue Search Manager was listening in on his Ham Radio When over the 
waves came a distress call :May Day, May Day". The call came from 
hundreds of miles to the north from a remote cabin in the northern BC 
wilderness. A women, a 20 year old tourist, was badly injured when she 
fell from the roof of the cabin. Her friend, a ham operator, had tried to 
send his emergency message out on several frequencies nearer to their 
location but had not received any response. One of the calls was picked 
up by a Sunshine Coast SAR Search Manager and some fellow Ham operators.

Quick to respond they acknowledge the distress call and followed with a
second call to the Emergency Command Center in Victoria, B.C..

Soon a helicopter was airborne to the cabin, dispatched form Terrace BC.
Our Search Manager and his Ham radio friends maintained contact with the
couple in distress until the helicopter arrived at their cabin. As of
late last week the  woman was reported to be in good condition in the
Terrace Hospital.

Submitted by Mike Hannah, Sunshine Coast SAR Team

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