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Life Flight rescuers could see Saturday's Mill Creek avalanche 'was a dire situation,' pilot says


Life Flight rescuers could see Saturday’s Mill Creek avalanche ‘was a dire situation,’ pilot says
Norma Gonzalez
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(Screen grab) A screen grab image from Fox 13 footage of an Intermountain Life Flight helicopter crew that responded to Saturday s deadly avalanche in Mill Creek Canyon. Fox 13 is a reporting parter of The Salt Lake Tribune.
As an Intermountain Life Flight helicopter reached Wilson Glade in Mill Creek Canyon Saturday, pilot Richard Dobson and others scanned the mountainside where eight skiers had been caught in an avalanche.
It took them six or seven minutes to locate some of the survivors, he said. Dobson spotted four people along a tree line; one was conducting CPR on one of the skiers. ....

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How Utah's deadly avalanche and the rescue unfolded


| Updated: Feb. 11, 2021, 12:30 a.m.
An avalanche in Mill Creek Canyon crashed down the north face of Wilson’s Peak on Saturday, killing four young Utahns in one of the deadliest slides in Utah’s modern recreation era.
One skier clung to a tree as seven others were swept away. Six were buried, and one was partially covered in snow, according to the Utah Avalanche Center.
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He used a transceiver to locate signals being transmitted by beacons carried by buried skiers, and dug down to two who were trapped under 3 to 5 feet of snow, Hardesty said.
“To see this occur,” he said, “and then have the wherewithal to go acquire the [beacon] signals and do not one but two full and deep burials and rescue two lives, is amazing.” ....

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