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Injured woman rescued from ‘hazardous’ area at Potholes

Times Colonist3 June 2020p. A4JDF SAR era

Times Colonist, p. A4, 3 June 2020 ref-only

Summary

A 26-year-old woman who had suffered an ankle or leg injury was brought to safety up a steep incline at the Sooke Potholes on the Monday night. Sooke Fire Rescue was called about 5:30 p.m. and arrived to find the woman in the Sooke River at the base of the incline, where Fire Chief Kenn Mount said it is believed she had been jumping from rock to rock. "Thankfully, it wasn't a long fall because it was a dangerous [spot]" [quotation continues beyond the region read]. Crews had to reach the woman, then make their way back up to get her to waiting B.C. Ambulance crews. Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue [attended in a supporting role].

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Headline	“Injured woman rescued from ‘hazardous’ area at Potholes” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
Publication	Times Colonist
Date	3 June 2020
Page	A4
Era	JDF SAR era
Document type	news report
Source	ProQuest Digital Times Colonist via GVPL no external link recorded
Accessed	2026-07-16
Licensing	ref-only
Record confidence	probable

Archivist's note

The archive's clearest illustration of the division of labour between Sooke Fire Rescue and Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue at the Sooke Potholes - the fire department leads, the SAR team backs up. That relationship is the modern descendant of the arrangement described in the CRD's own history text, under which the Sooke Volunteer Fire Department ran search and rescue until 1983.

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Scan of Times Colonist, page A4, 3 June 2020 — the catalogued article — The article as printed.

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Shared page: the scan is a full newspaper page whose other content is unrelated. The summary describes only this article. OCR quality 0.94. The sentence describing the Juan de Fuca team's role is cut off in the region read at "Juan de Fuca S..."; the backup role is indicated by the archive's filename and by the structure of the account but the exact wording is not asserted. A short targeted read would complete it.

Record id 2020-06-03-times-colonist-pa4-backup-role. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2020-06-03_times_colonist_pA4_backup_role.pdf.

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