Coquitlam Search and Rescue members were kept busy over the sunny weekend, responding to two calls near Pitt River.
On Saturday evening at about 7:30 p.m. two canoeists called for help, reporting they were somewhere on Pitt Lake.
Several members responded by boat from DeBoville Slough. They used the YourLo.ca/tion service, developed by Coquitlam SAR members, to locate their cell phone's location to a spot within five metres near Widgeon Slough, just west of Siwash Island.
The RCMP helicopter confirmed the pair's location a few minutes later.
When the marine rescue team located the canoeists they were stranded on a sandbar and were wet, cold and suffering from hypothermia. Both were lightly dressed but one of them had fallen into the water at some point in the evening and was non-verbal.
The team transported the pair to Grant Narrows, where members from Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue, Pitt Meadows Fire & Rescue and BC Ambulance were standing by.
On Sunday night Coquitlam SAR responded to two hikers lost in Minnekhada Regional Park. The man and woman in their 50s had become lost when the sun went down and called for help at about 8 p.m.
More than a dozen volunteers responded and located the hikers, who were dressed appropriately and uninjured, and walked them back to the parking lot.
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