Dwayne Derban, assistant chief of operations at the District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue, said the call came in at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
A young man is dead after slipping and falling about 150 feet into Lynn Canyon . It happened on Sunday, and it's a grim reminder of the danger of ignoring warning signs. As Grace Ke reports, he was a student from Ontario getting ready to start classes at UBC.
Originally from Ontario, the teen was expected to start classes at the University of British Columbia next week.“Our first-on-the-scene crew, Engine 1, from the fire hall got there and they heard that it was across the suspension bridge on the west side of the river,” he said. “At that point in time, we knew where he was, and we could set up a lowering system to get our rescuer down there,” he added.Story continues below advertisement“So this one young lad, took it in his mind to get closer to the edge, to get some some pictures. And in the end, it was a bad decision.”
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