Updated: Nelson Const. Wade Tittemore, 43, has been identified as the officer killed in the avalanche near Kaslo. Co-worker Const. Mathieu Nolet, 28, was critically injured.
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When they arrived, the officer who had been buried had no vital signs and the second was suffering from “very serious thoracic and abdominal trauma,” he said. “Thanks to the bystanders for their quick action in recovering and providing care for the skiers,” said Cpl. Harland Venema of the Kaslo RCMP. Avalanche Canada said in a post on its website that some professionals are comparing this year’s snowpack to 2003, “which was one of the worst years on record for avalanche fatalities.”
“It could just be a tricky winter where people heading into that country need to be disciplined and choose conservative terrain,” he said. “Periods of drought and cold weather created numerous problematic layers in the snowpack,” the website said, generating conditions “seen once every 10 to 20 years.” It called the snowpack “spooky” for much of Western Canada.Article content
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