Police officer killed in avalanche near Kaslo, BC identified as 43-year-old constable

Описание: A police officer has died and another is critically injured after they were caught in an avalanche near Kaslo in B.C.'s West Kootenay Region on Monday afternoon.

The officer has been identified by the City of Nelson and the Nelson Police Department as Wade Tittemore, age 43. A second officer, Mathieu Nolet, age 28,  was seriously injured in the avalanche and was in a local hospital where he remained in the ICU officials confirmed.

Both officers were skiing when the incident occurred, the Nelson Police Board said. They had previously ridden snowmobiles to the area before getting on skis. Neither of the officers was working at the time.

The Avalanche Canada website estimates the destructive power of the slide that hit the two snowmobilers was almost enough to bury a car, destroy a small building or break trees.

It had warned the Kootenays and Kaslo were at moderate risk of avalanches on Monday, as were the western Fraser Valley and Okanagan, the northwestern coast and interior from Kitimat to Iskut, and the south-central interior west of Merritt. A considerable risk rating, meanwhile, was given to the Sea-to-Sky region, the North Shore and the Sunshine Coast, where snow, wind and rain on Sunday night may have created fresh slabs that were reactive to human triggers.

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