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CAMPAIGN COMING TO A CLOSE
THURSDAY, DEC. 27, 2012
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Paramedic hailed a hero Stroet risked his safety to help save a woman from a vehicle that had overturned in a water-filled ditch BY JASON ROESSLE Mission Record
It took nearly three hours of hospital care to bring Darryl Stroet’s core body temperature back to safe levels. The Mission B.C. Ambulance Service paramedic spent about 30 minutes up to his waist in frigid water last Monday as he worked with local firefighters to help save a woman whose truck had careened into a ditch and landed upside down, trapping her. Stroet’s shift had started at 6:30 a.m., and he was just finishing checking over his ambulance when the crew was paged out to Chester Street and Lougheed Highway for a single-vehicle accident. “When we arrived I could see lots of civilians all over the place,” he said, including three
bystanders who witnessed the crash and had waded into the waStroet ter-filled channel to see if the driver was injured. “My first thought was that I didn’t want them to get hurt, to get hypothermia,” said the 19-year veteran paramedic. He made his way down the precariously steep ditch and called out to the trapped woman. “‘You’re safe, we’re here to help you,’” he said. Stroet asked a nearby RCMP constable to toss down a crowbar, which the former Smithers firefighter used to pry the underside of the door
Beneficial entertainment The 13th annual Christmas Benefit Concert at the Clarke Theatre happened Dec. 19 and raised funds for the Mission Christmas Bureau and Women’s Resource Society of the Fraser Valley. The event packed the theatre, and featured the vocal talents of the Hatzic Secondary School jazz band (above), along with Mission’s Kenny Hess (left). Also performing was Horizon plus Rob Hess and Halo.
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