UPDATED: Canadian Rangers involved in two search and rescue missions over holidays
Both searches involved missing snowmobilers.
Dec 28, 2020 11:44 AM By: TbNewsWatch.com Staff
One involved a stranded snowmobiler from Wawakapewin First Nation, 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay.
A spokesperson for the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol says the man set out on Christmas Day to snowmobile to another community, 175 kilometres away, but failed to arrive.
After OPP were notified, police requested help from the Rangers.
Master Corporal Dwayne Brown teamed up with a civilian volunteer, Bobby McKay, to begin a search.
They found the overdue traveller had got his machine stuck in slush on a creek, but the two rescuers got their own snowmobiles stuck as well, and had to radio for assistance.