Coquitlam SAR has been called on rescues twice in the past week, leading up to the Canada Day long weekend, the busiest SAR weekend of the year. On Sunday June 23rd around 15:00, the team was called to rescue a hiker with a badly sprained ankle on the Diez Vistas trail. The team used the …
At noon on Sunday, June 12, Coquitlam Search and Rescue (Coq SAR), the BC Ambulance Service (BCAS), Sasamat Volunteer Fire Department (SVFD), BC Parks and BC Hydro Buntzen Lake Wardens responded to an injured hiker on the Diez Vista Trail located on the west slope of Buntzen Lake. “We first had to locate the subject …