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Campbell River Search and Rescue evacuated four people from Raft Cove near Holberg after several landslides cut off access to the isolated area Saturday. Port Hardy RCMP received a call on Saturday afternoon from the family of a woman who had driven out to the northwest coast of Vancouver Island between Raft Cove and San Josef Bay. The woman planned to walk into a surfers’ shack for a couple of days, but did not return when expected. Heavy rains had washed out the road in several places and the woman was stranded. On Sunday morning, battling heavy winds and rough flying conditions, two Campbell River Search and Rescue (CRSAR) members and an RCMP officer flew along the logging road to investigate. “The woman was located safely at her vehicle, but completely unable to return to civilization without help, as the washouts would have been extremely hazardous, if not impossible to walk across,” said CR SAR search manager Tim Fairbank. The woman was picked up and flown to town, leaving the fate of her vehicle to insurance adjusters. The RCMP had been told from the forest operators that the road might never be repaired. What came as a surprise at the idyllic west coast hideaway, was that three other men from Victoria were in the same predicament. While they knew about the washout, they Continued on Pg. 2
Photo by Sean Darcy/camPbell river Search & reScue
This landslide took out the forest service road leading to Raft Cove in northern Vancouver Island Saturday and trapped a woman and three men. The woman’s vehicle (seen to the left of the slide) and the men’s remain trapped indefinitely because there are no plans to fix the road.
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