A witness reported seeing a man who's been missing since Sunday fall into the swollen Coquitlam River as he tried to rescue a dog, and was 'immediately swept away,' a local search and rescue manager said on Wednesday.
A witness reported seeing a man who's been missing since Sunday fall into the swollen Coquitlam River as he tried to rescue a dog, and was"immediately swept away," a local search and rescue manager said on Wednesday.
Coquitlam was one of the hardest-hit areas as an atmospheric river weather system rolled over southern B.C. last weekend, dumping more than 250 millimetres of rain on the Metro Vancouver community. She said her dad enjoys the outdoors and she's hopeful he wasn't too badly hurt, that he"managed to stay conscious," and is somewhere they haven't looked yet.
B.C.'s River Forecast Centre had issued a flood warning for the Coquitlam River, although it was downgrading to a flood watch by Sunday and has since been rescinded."It was very high. It was moving very fast, and it was full of debris," he said"There trees and bits of wood and dead fish, all kinds of things in the water as well.
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