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Highway Open, Search Efforts Continue

Writer: kc dyerkc dyer

Home "displaced" by slide; residents unaccounted for


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One of the two Talon helicopters in service of today's search efforts.

The Sea to Sky highway reopened this morning at 5 a.m., after crews worked throughout the night to clear debris from yesterday's landslide.


However, the impact of the slide continues to be felt, as rescue groups remain onsite in the area above the highway near the base of Magnesia Creek.


In a special Village Update this morning, Mayor Ken Berry stated that a home on Glendale Avenue was "displaced" by the slide, and that search and rescue operations continue "to try to locate two individuals who may have been in the home at the time."


Lions Bay Search and Rescue (LBSAR) and Lions Bay Fire Rescue (LBFR) efforts are being assisted by Britannia Fire Rescue and heavy urban rescue specialists Canada Task Force 1, along with Metro Vancouver Emergency, the RCMP and other local police services. Two helicopters are taking part in the search efforts this morning.


Local residents continue to hold out hope that the missing individuals will be found.


According to the Mayor's statement, geotechnical engineers who have surveyed the site have "deemed further slide activity is unlikely."


Follow The Watershed for updates as more information becomes available.





The Watershed is, above all, a community news source,

and our thoughts go out to the family, friends and neighbours of the impacted residents.


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rod baker
Dec 15, 2024

Thanks for this update. One wonders where the geotechnical engineers were prior to the slide?

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