Quesnel Search & Rescue was called out over the weekend.
Bob Zimmerman, the Manager in charge of the search and also the President, says they got a call from BC Emergency Health Services on Saturday afternoon at around 3-30 to the Wonderland Trail network.
“We got a call from BC Emergency Health Services, the ambulance service, they had a 52-year old male hiker that was on the bike trail, up in the Wonderland Trail, and had slipped and hurt his knee and was not able to walk out, so they asked us if we could send a team in and package him up and bring him out in a stretcher to the ambulance down below.”
Zimmerman says it was a team effort with 11 Quesnel volunteers and 10 more out of Williams Lake.
“We were able to send an initial team up to the subject and make sure he was OK and get him packaged up, so when the next team arrived from Quesnel up on top where the subject was, they were able to start getting him into a stretcher and start wheeling him down off the mountain. Then the rest of the crew from Williams Lake joined up with him for the last half of the trip and helped to bring him down give him to the ambulance service.”
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Zimmerman says it was about a 4-kilometre trek.
He says it was just after it got dark that the ambulance took the man to hospital.
