A 12-year-old boy is recovering with a broken ankle after slipping and falling 20 feet into the Coquitlam River near the Crystal Falls area north of David Avenue.
Coquitlam Search and Rescue (SAR) volunteers and Coquitlam Fire and Rescue firefighters were called out to the scene, initially with information that the boy had suffered a serious head injury. That information turned out to be false and crews were able to extract the boy and carry him out of the bushes on a stretcher.
"Everything was activated on the scene," said Coquitlam SAR search manager Dwight Yochim. "If he had been seriously injured, we would have been able to get him out extremely fast."
The incident took place at 3 p.m. on Sunday and the rescue concluded at around 6 p.m. the same day, he added.
