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NS Rescue pilots drone program JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
A small drone takes off from a ridge high in the North Shore mountains and swoops down the vertical track of a river gully, hovering over boulders and waterfalls under low cloud cover.
HARNESSING GOOD IDEAS Jeff Yarnold, a North Shore Rescue member and vice-president of Boost Systems and Mike Danks, leader of North Shore Rescue, demonstrate a new longline system that enables five people to be attached to one line during a helicopter longline rescue. The team conducted a demonstration at their Bone Creek station in North Vancouver Wednesday. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
Images from the camera mounted on the drone are beamed back to a computer, where North Shore Rescue’s search team leaders scan the video for clues in the white-grey background or check for infrared heat signatures among remote swaths of ice and snow. For those who are lost or injured in the backcountry, such technology could one day soon make the difference between life and death. Last week, provincial Emergency Management B.C. informed search and rescue teams across the
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Storm leaves thousands in the dark JUSTIN BEDDALL jbeddall@nsnews.com
Nearly 16,000 North Van residents were left in the dark Thursday morning after the winter windstorm that wreaked havoc across Metro Vancouver temporarily knocked out the Capilano substation. Overnight, as winds howled up to 98 kilometres an hour and knocked down trees and power lines, approximately 1,100 customers were without power in North Vancouver. About 1,000 were left in the dark in West Vancouver. But that number spiked significantly Thursday at 9:30
Winds at Point Atkinson gusted to 98 km/hr
a.m. when the Capilano substation went down and the lights went out for thousands of residents. By 10:30 a.m., BC Hydro had restored power to nearly 12,000 homes in North Vancouver. BC Hydro spokesperson Mora Scott said the cause of the substation outage was a large tree falling on a transmission line that delivers power to the station.
At the peak of the storm nearly 120,000 customers were without power across Metro Vancouver. Scott said the number of power outages across the region were in a state of flux. “I think with this storm what we are seeing is the power will go out, crews will fix it in one area, and then we’ll see an outage in another area.” “(It was) obviously a pretty intense storm,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Matt MacDonald.” MacDonald described the storm as a “weather bomb”
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