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Vol. 3/Issue 26

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June 30, 2006

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By Adrian Bergles Pioneer Staff Members of the Windermere Fire Department and the Panorama Fire Department are now trained to rescue people from swiftly-moving water. Last weekend the fire crews took swift water training in the frigid Toby Creek. Toby Creek was chosen for swift water training because it is easily accessible; it is an area where the fire crews may eventually be called for an emergency; and because of its obstacles, like logs, rocks and varying water current, said Windermere captain Doug Sinclair. “It’s got the kind of features that put people in trouble,” he said. Two men, Larry Obst, a professional firefighter from Prince George; and Joe Storms, a park warden at Jasper National Park; provided the training. The volunteer firefighters took drills designed to simulate being pinned to a log in moving water, to avoid obstacles in the water, how to rescue themselves if they become trapped in swift water, and how to rescue someone else. “This is over and above our fire training,” said said Windermere deputy fire chief Lee Lax. “It’s quite a pat on everyone’s back to make themselves available.” As well as swift water, some members of the Windermere Fire Department are also trained in ice water rescue. Meanwhile, the Windermere department will know on July 7th whether they will receive money to

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Firefighters practice rescuing a trapped victim. buy a dedicated rescue boat for Lake Windermere. That’s when the matter will come before the regional district board of directors, said Gundula Brigl, the regional district’s emergency services coordinator. The regional district funds the fire department, which is staffed by volunteers. Currently no dedicated rescue boat exists on the waters of Lake Windermere. Windermere fire chief Jim Miller said they have asked for a Zodiac, an inflatable boat costing between $16,000 and $20,000. Once the fire department has the boat they will begin using it immediately. He said he has a tentative plan to have members of his fire crew trained in open water rescue - required for Lake Windermere - sometime in August. “I’m very optimistic,” he said. The family of

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More human bones found on lakeshore By Adrian Bergles Pioneer Staff More human remains have been sent away to Prince George for forensic identification after they were discovered by an area resident at Fort Point in Invermere over the weekend. Columbia Valley RCMP Sergeant Neil Cross said three human bones were discovered protruding from the bank of Lake Windermere just north of the Bayshore Condos on Saturday. This is the same location where another passerby discovered a human skull in the shallow water just off the shore on June 15th. Sgt. Cross said since the skull was found, the bank has further eroded, partially revealing the additional remains. Columbia Valley RCMP Constable Scott Hromadnik attended the scene on Saturday and removed the bones, said Sgt. Cross. Sgt. Cross said it was difficult to identify which part of the body the bones came from, and that they were “somewhat deteriorated.” The extra bones will join the skull in Prince George where a forensic anthropologist will determine whether or not the two discoveries are linked. They may be from the same body, or from two or more bodies. On Tuesday morning members of the RCMP Major Crimes Unit, an identification unit from Cranbrook, members of the coroner’s service, and a forensic anthropologist all visited the scene. “An archeological dig was done at the site of the recent discovery,” said the sergeant. “The previous time we didn’t have

a location so we couldn’t do an archeological dig,” he said. The police didn’t know exactly where the skull came from because it was found in the water. No more bones were found during the dig, said Sgt. Cross. In Prince George the bones will be examined for race, age, sex and to determine how long the person has been deceased. Sgt. Cross said in discussions with the provincial Archeological Branch, he was told that Fort Point is the site of an old First Nations burial ground. The representative of the Archeological Branch said an area on the tip of Fort Point - not the site where the recent discoveries were made - had earlier been identified by the province as archeologically significant. Sgt. Cross said he did not know exactly where the significant site was located. He said at this point it is not known if the newly-found remains are archeological, historic, or from an old crime. Other bones were found in the same area in 2003, but Sgt. Cross said that those bones were not related to the recent discoveries. He would not say how the RCMP came to that conclusion. According to the provincial Archeology Branch’s website, an archeological site is a “location where there is evidence of past human activity.” Currently there are more than 23,000 recorded archeological sites in the province. In British Columbia these sites contain information on the life of the First Nations people over the past 12,000 years. Archeological sites also provide information on the settlement of the province over the past 200 years.

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