North Shore Rescue crews helped in two operations this weekend, one on Bowen Island and one on Coquitlam's Burke Mountain.

Sunday (June 28) Sea to Sky Regional Police asked the rescue team to help search for missing Squamish teen Jodi Henrickson, who was last seen in the early hours of June 20 after attending a house party on Bowen Island.

Cpl. Dave Ritchie said between the June 24 – when Henrickson was reported missing – and June 27 police were "able to locate some primary areas of concern." Ritchie said he couldn't identify the target areas but said their were four specific sites identified by police.

He said NSR and the RCMP special units helped search "steep terrain into the shore line."

NSR manager Tim Jones said he could not reveal details of the search as it is a police file, but added Lions Bay and Coquitlam Search and Rescue members helped in the operation.

Shortly after 6 p.m., he said, "Just as NSR was standing down the Bowen operation we were called on by the Coquitlam Search and Rescue to provide a heli(copter) flight rescue team."

Rescue team members were flown from Bowen Island by helicopter to aid with a rescue of an injured ATV-er on Burke Mountain, Jones said.

Two men riding ATVs called for help when one man flipped his vehicle and broke his ankle.

While SAR members quickly reached the two men in an eight-wheel-drive rescue vehicle, rescue technicians said the steep terrain called for a helicopter rescue of the injured man.

"It (the crash site) was right underneath a power line on an old trail," said Coquitlam SAR manager Dwight Yochim. "The road was extremely rough – that's one of the reasons we didn't drive the subject down. It would have caused more injuries."

He said carrying the man by stretcher down 70-degree slopes would have taken six or seven hours.

After the helicopter rescue, the man was taken by ambulance to Eagle Ridge hospital, according to Yochim.

Yochim and Jones both said the rescue teams have a close relationship and a policy of assisting one another when possible. Yochim said mutual aid arrangements have taken him "all over the province helping out with other teams."

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