Volunteers with the Alberni Valley Rescue Squad were called to assist with a rescue on the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail on the Friday. The Alberni Valley Rescue Squad responded to four incidents in the week, capping off the busy stretch with a second call to the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, where the team assisted Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue in getting an injured person to a helicopter to be flown to a waiting ambulance in Jordan River. It was one of three mutual-aid requests the Alberni Valley team responded to during the week, including a previous incident along the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail on 11 August involving a person who had fallen into the ocean and suffered a leg injury.
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“Four-rescue week keeps Alberni Valley group busy” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
Read with the 14 August report also held here, this documents two Juan de Fuca Marine Trail rescues within nine days, both requiring a helicopter and an out-of-area hoist team. It is the archive's best evidence for the claim, made by Victoria Clarke in the 2024 annual statistics piece, that the trail generates the third highest call volume of any location in the province. This page was recovered from inside the ProQuest bulk export already held in the archive, where it had been listed as referenced but not held.
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Record id 2024-08-20-times-colonist-pa2-jdf-trail-peak-season. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 24).
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