Rope Rescue

• Heart-stopping rescue: Crews pluck stranded BASE jumper from Stawamus Chief

  'She was in a relatively vulnerable position. She was hanging from her parachute from a small outcropping of rock, with probably 200 metres below her.'

  Canada

  Jan 23, 2025
  
• Latest in string of rescues from Vancouver embankment raises concerns

  Rescuers had to rappel down about 45 metres (150 feet) to the bottom of the Grandview Cut, a human-made ravine that serves as a right of way for CN Rail and the SkyTrain.

  Crime

  May 10, 2024
  
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• Woman able to ‘crawl to the top’ of escarpment during rope rescue: Hamilton fire

  Hamilton fire says some 10 rescue units were dispatched to an area atop the Niagara escarpment early Wednesday to pull a person to safety.

  Fire

  Dec 20, 2023
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• B.C. search and rescue volunteers take part in rope rescue training in Kelowna

  The yearly training is a major part of search and rescue and with a variety of terrain in B.C. volunteers need their skills to be perfect.

  Canada

  Apr 16, 2023
• Vancouver firefighters rappel down building to rescue trapped window washers

  Crews were called to the building at Georgia and Homer streets around 1:45 p.m., after the workers' platform froze midway up the building's exterior.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2023
• 2 rescued from fall down embankment at conservation area in Dundas, Ont.

  Hamilton Paramedics say they treated a a pair of women near Ofield and Harvest Roads on Sunday afternoon. One was sent to hospital.

  Canada

  Aug 29, 2022
• Man rescued in overnight rope rescue near Scenic Drive in Hamilton

  A man was rescued by firefighters early Tuesday after he fell from a path near Chedoke Radial Trail.

  Canada

  Jul 20, 2021
• Cliff jumper rescued after getting swept up in dangerous Lynn Canyon current

  "He almost got swept over another set of currents into what I would call a terminal hazard," District of North Vancouver Fire & Rescue Services Assistant Chief David Johnson said.

  Canada

  Jun 27, 2021
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• Hamilton fire conduct rope rescue at Tew’s Falls

  Several emergency responders rescued a hiker at the Spencer Gorge Conservation Area.

  Canada

  Jun 21, 2021
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• 1 person sent to Saint John hospital after crash near Reversing Falls

  One person was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a vehicle rolled down an embankment near Reversing Falls in Saint John early Sunday.

  Health

  Jun 7, 2021