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Alberta Mounties rescued a hunter without injury after he became trapped under an all-terrain vehicle near Agnes Lake earlier this week.
In a Tuesday news release, Boyle RCMP said they received a report on Sunday at around 12:45 p.m. that the Fort McKay First Nations man was stranded in an inaccessible area 24 kilometres west of Highway 63 near Agnes Lake between Wandering River and Mariana Lake.
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Mounties said the hunter was driving an Argo — an amphibious all-terrain vehicle — back to his cabin when the vehicle flipped onto its side and became stuck. The temperature at the time was 4 C, police said.
Mounties said they quickly realized they would only be able to free the hunter with the RCMP helicopter MPP. Once the helicopter arrived, the hunter was extracted from the Argo and transported to Lac La Biche without injuries.
“Conditions were cold and wet,” said RCMP Cpl. Troy Savinkoff in the release. “The quick co-ordination and execution of this rescue prevented the hunter from needing medical attention in a situation that could have ended differently.”
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