AZURE MOUNTAIN
September 25, 1950: "A Forestry Service lookout man, alone and injured on top of a 6500-foot mountain peak in the B.C. interior, was rescued Saturday by helicopter.
The dramatic rescue took place in the Clearwater-Azure Lakes district, 110 miles north of Kamloops, despite clouds and wind.
A.D. Flower, lookout man in that area, suffered a crushed right leg last week when a rock tumbled on him as he was clearing a trail. He was in touch with Kamloops by radio but did not ask for help immediately, feeling that hospitalization was unnecessary.
When the leg failed to heal, he radioed for help.
An Okanogan Air Service Ltd. helicopter, doing a flying job at Hope, was detoured to Kamloops then took off for the lookout station.
Pilot D.K. 'Deke' Orr made the ticklish flight and put the big 'windmill' down virtually on top of the mountain, in a small alpine meadow.
Flower's injury is not serious." (The Vancouver Sun)
The dramatic rescue took place in the Clearwater-Azure Lakes district, 110 miles north of Kamloops, despite clouds and wind.
A.D. Flower, lookout man in that area, suffered a crushed right leg last week when a rock tumbled on him as he was clearing a trail. He was in touch with Kamloops by radio but did not ask for help immediately, feeling that hospitalization was unnecessary.
When the leg failed to heal, he radioed for help.
An Okanogan Air Service Ltd. helicopter, doing a flying job at Hope, was detoured to Kamloops then took off for the lookout station.
Pilot D.K. 'Deke' Orr made the ticklish flight and put the big 'windmill' down virtually on top of the mountain, in a small alpine meadow.
Flower's injury is not serious." (The Vancouver Sun)