Richmond’s volunteer search and rescue team was called into action again on the weekend, after a boat crashed near the Iona jetty.
Two people were rescued by the RCMSAR crew following the crash on Friday night at around 6:50 p.m. in what was described by Station 10 coxswain Brian Hobbs as “dark, wet and windy” weather conditions.
Hobbs said crews responded in the north arm of the Fraser River to a report of two people injured after their vessel struck the rock wall near the jetty.
When the crew arrived at the scene, they discovered one injured person still on the rock wall, who was being helped by a member of a commercial tugboat crew that had been in the area.
The second person had already been rescued onto a nearby pleasure vessel.
The RCMSAR crew treated both patients before the arrival of the Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft, which took both patients to hospital with what were believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
