A heavy storm battering the region turned tragic Friday afternoon when a 15-year-old teen was struck and killed by a falling tree in Surrey.
According to Surrey RCMP, emergency crews were called to a wooded park area near Clayton Heights Secondary School around 2:25 p.m. after a tree was felled by the strong winds. It had trapped a teen boy.
Surrey Fire Service Deputy Chief Larry Thomas said four firefighters were able to remove the tree from the student and immediately began administering first aid. B.C. Ambulance soon arrived and paramedics took the student to hospital.
Later in the day, Surrey RCMP confirmed the teen had died in hospital, and that the RCMP’s youth section and the B.C. Coroner’s Service were investigating the “unfortunate accident.”
“The Surrey RCMP is asking people to stay out of wooded areas during periods of high wind,” said Cpl. Scotty Schumann.
It is believed to be the first fatality related to the storm hammering the B.C. south coast this week.
No further details were released about the death.
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Oct. 14, 2016 — Emergency personnel work at the scene near Clayton Heights Secondary in Surrey, where a 15-year-old boy was killed by a falling tree during Friday’s wind storm.
Emergency personnel work at the scene near Clayton Heights Secondary in Surrey, where a 15-year-old boy was killed by a falling tree during Friday’s wind storm.
