Firefighters rescue woman in North Vancouver park who fell into creek
Posted August 23, 2014 5:42 pm.
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NORTH VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – North Vancouver firefighters retrieved a 20-year-old woman who fell in Lynn Canyon Park.
Assistant fire chief Mike Cairns says the woman fell about three metres from a ledge and injured her ankle in Lynn Creek.
Cairns says the area is steep, so firefighters lowered a stretcher into the creek and lifted her out which took about 30 minutes.
He says crews were considering placing her on a float and pushing her down the waterway to be retrieved downstream, but decided lifting her out was a slower, but safer method.
He says hundreds were in the park today and the woman appears to have been going for a swim with friends.