Camping Accident Claims Life

By Corey Fischer

May 18, 2019 | 8:20 PM

A woman has died and a young person is in serious condition after what appears to be a camping accident near Salmon Arm.

RCMP passed on the following information on Saturday afternoon from Cpl. Chris Manseau, Division Media Relations Officer, BC RCMP Communication Services:

On May 18th 2019 at just after 10 a.m. the Salmon RCMP responded to a complaint at a private campground just outside Salmon Arm of two persons in medical distress.

Upon arrival Salmon Arm RCMP front line members located a deceased adult female, and a group of persons performing first aid on a youth.

Through investigation it was determined that the pair had been camping in a tent and gone to bed the night prior at approximately midnight. In the tent investigators located a cooking pot with wood ash in it that is believed to have been used as source of heat. Based on the evidence gathered, it appears that both tent occupants may have been overcome by Carbon Monoxide from the wood burning.

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BC Air Ambulance transported the youth to a hospital who was in serious condition. Victim Services was contacted to offer assistance and support.

The BC Coroners Service was contacted and is in the early stages of its fact-finding investigation; the Coroners Service investigates all sudden, unexpected and/or unnatural deaths in the province to determine who died, how, where, when and by what means.

Due to the privacy of the deceased (per the Coroners Act and provincial privacy legislation), they will not confirm or release ID.

by Corey Fischer