A teenager received CPR after being involved in a tree accident. One teenager was declared dead and another is in a critical condition after a tree fell on at least one of them at a camp near the Vancouver Island community of Sooke.
Dangers in the wilderness
According to the officials with the Otter Point Volunteer Fire Department, they were called to Camp Bernard after a report that a boy was trapped under a tree.
One person was seen being transported by ambulance while the rescuers attempted CPR on another person on a nearby riverbank. The crews battling a nearby brush fire stated that the winds hit 80 km/h around Sooke.
An ambulance helicopter was sent to the area near a hatchery and the BC Coroners Service has been contacted.
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