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Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Rock slide near Bell's Canyon, authorities responding
SANDY, Utah (ABC4) — A rock slide occurred near Bell's Canyon Saturday morning, according to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office. Authorities are currently responding to the scene. 'We had a rock slide near Bell's Canyon. Our Search and Rescue team responded,' the sheriff's office posted on X. 'Operations currently underway.' Details are limited at this time. This is a developing story. ABC4 will update this post as new information becomes available. Latest headlines: Rock slide near Bell's Canyon, authorities responding Congress approves public media and foreign aid cuts: What to know Tony Hawk's Vert Alert: Skateboarding legend hosts free event at U of U Monsoon moisture lingers before drying out this weekend Republicans eye efforts to quiet Epstein uproar but can't quash it Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
CTV News
21 hours ago
- CTV News
2 killed, 1 seriously injured in service road crash near Mission, B.C.
Two men in their early 20s have died and another has serious injuries after a truck they were in crashed while on a forest service road near Mission, B.C., Thursday night. Mounties were called to the Norrish Creek Forest Service Road just before 9 p.m. after a motorist was reportedly flagged down on the road by a man who had been injured in the crash, Mission RCMP said in a statement. He had been a passenger in the truck travelling with two friends when it crashed, police said. Mission Search and Rescue were called in to assist with locating the truck, which was found in the waters of a creek approximately 300 feet down an embankment. Both men remaining inside died as a result of the crash, while the third suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the statement said. All three were 22-year-old Abbotsford residents who had been camping with friends in the area. The cause of the crash is still being investigated, and the Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service has been called in, alongside Mission RCMP's Traffic Services Unit. Anyone who saw a red Ford Ranger with a black Canopy in the Norrish Creek area on July 17 is being advised to call police via 604-826-7161, and quote file number 25-8509.
CBC
a day ago
- General
- CBC
Preliminary approval granted for new $10M search and rescue base in Kamloops, B.C.
Plans for a new Kamloops Search and Rescue base in Rayleigh are moving ahead. Directors with the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board unanimously approved covering almost 60 per cent of the nearly $10-million cost. The new facility will also be home to a fire hall, replacing the existing one in Rayleigh. The project, first proposed in November 2023, is needed because volunteers said they have outgrown their current space and were called out a record 75 times in 2024. KSAR President Paula Davies said they normally attend fewer than 50 calls per year and often search forests, trails, rivers and lakes beyond city limits. Their Swiftwater Rescue team recently searched the Thompson River for a university student from India who drowned July 6. His body was found July 15 by a KSAR volunteer kayaking near McArthur Island Park. KSAR's Frank Pryce said the complex will include a training centre for volunteers from smaller outlying communities. "We've had conversations with them and they're all keen to be able to come here, so we're doing training that is going to help all the teams because they're all in very small buildings that don't have the ability to do all that stuff," said Pryce. The City of Kamloops is expected to commit $2.4 million at an upcoming council meeting. The rest of the money, $1.4-million, will come from Kamloops Search and Rescue through a fundraising campaign. KSAR President Paula Davies hopes people they've helped rescue in the past will make donations. "If they see the benefit of SAR teams and they have the means of making a donation, then that's great. Everything helps," said Davies. Ashcroft Mayor Barbara Roden chairs the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board. She said it makes sense for the TNRD to jointly fund this facility with the City of Kamloops, but she also wants support from other levels of government. "They are there in every corner of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, and it is going to benefit so many people over so many years," said Roden. "Why the province cannot fund something like search and rescue is absolutely beyond me. This is a case where the province needs to step up to the plate and start contributing." It's not clear how soon construction could start because Kamloops city council has yet to approve its share of funding. The lease for the existing base in Mission Flats expired at the end of January 2025. The new site is on city-owned land at 4420 Devick Road. Davies said there's no rush to start construction because the city has given them permission to stay in Mission Flats until the new facility is ready. "The city has graciously said that as long as you are working towards a home and basically will be gone as soon as we can move into our new home, they will let us stay there for the time being, so we won't be kicked out onto the street."
The Independent
2 days ago
- Automotive
- The Independent
Handwritten notes help rescue missing mother and son in California forest
A mother, Tami Laird, 49, and her nine-year-old son, Stirling, were rescued after being stranded for over 24 hours in a remote Californian forest. They became lost after following a GPS route that led them onto logging trails, where their Nissan Sentra eventually got stuck and Laird lost mobile phone signal. To aid their rescue, Laird wrote handwritten notes detailing their predicament and location, which she left on the road, along with a trail of rocks and cloth strips. Her son periodically blew a whistle as an international distress signal, while Laird switched on the car's hazard lights overnight. A volunteer search and rescue team, already training nearby, discovered the notes, significantly accelerating the timeline for finding the pair and reuniting them with their family. Mother and son dramatically rescued in California after authorities discover SOS notes
BBC News
2 days ago
- BBC News
Mother and son rescued in California forest, left handwritten notes
A mother and her nine-year-old son lost in the rocky mountain forest of Sierra Nevada in the US state of California were rescued thanks to a trail of handwritten notes they left behind - after getting stranded for more than 24 hours.A search and rescue team found the pair on 12 July after discovering multiple notes tucked beneath rocks, left by the mother, aged 49. "HELP. Me and my son are stranded with no service and can't call 911," one said. The pair were found by members of the Calaveras County Volunteer Search and Rescue Team, who already happened to be in the area. The mother told ABC10 it had been a "very scary experience", but paid tribute to the "amazing" efforts of the rescuers. The mission was detailed in a Facebook post by the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office. On 11 July, someone phoned the Calaveras County Dispatch Center and informed officers that the duo were "overdue" to return after departing for Camp Wolfeboro around 11:30 PST (18:30 GMT), the post mother and son were also not responding to phone calls, police were to ABC10, the mother, who identified herself as Tami, confirmed that they were unable to make any calls of their own, and that her son Stirling resorted to blowing his Cub Scout whistle in an effort to gain attention. She had been attempting to drop off Stirling for a camping trip, she police Facebook post said a volunteer search and rescue team already in the area for monthly training was soon deployed. It established a command post along the highway that leads to Wolfeboro."The team began assessing the terrain and the complex network of interconnecting, labyrinth-like roads to establish effective search parameters," the post added. "Air assets" and "specially equipped" off-road vehicles were also used in the search. A group of campers sent a text message to an emergency line telling police that they had seen a vehicle matching the description of the missing persons, which authorities said "confirmed that the teams were searching in the correct area".Shortly afterwards, a rescue crew located the first handwritten message."We are ahead, up the road to the right. Please call 911 to get help for us. Thank you!" the message said. The teams followed the road and found a second note, which included a telephone number and the names of the missing individuals. Roughly a mile further along, officials found the mother and the moment of their rescue, Tami told ABC10 that she first heard a vehicle honk. "I turned around and I saw this truck coming down the road and it was just the best feeling ever." She and Stirling had spent the night in the car to avoid wild animals, and were lucky to have food, she locating the duo, the search team deployed vehicle recovery equipment to free their car and assisted them to return to waiting family determined the pair became lost in part due to a GPS signal that stopped working after they reached a remote area, leaving them unable to retrace their route.
