B.C. bus crash

Officials said the passenger bus crashed on Highway 97C between Merritt and Kelowna on Saturday, prompting a "Code Orange" response in the Interior Health ...

[Vancouver Island](https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/) [Dolphins delight with return to B.C. is struggling to get the heat back on after they said Reliance Home Comfort allegedly delayed fixing their furnace after they missed one phone call from the technician. Premier François Legault took advantage of his traditional Christmas message to assure that his government will not let down people who are experiencing financial difficulties, especially during the holiday season. “We’ll do whatever we can to get (passengers) back home and reconnected with their loved ones.” Do you believe in the holiday food coma? said a “significant” number of ambulance vehicles responded to the incident. The road reopened Christmas morning. “Then on the other side from Merritt, Logan Lake.” No other vehicles were involved in the crash. "Our thoughts are with the families and patients, as well as the many first responders at the scene, who were impacted by this tragic incident." Two were in serious condition and two had non-life-threatening injuries. Sunday, eight patients remained in hospitals in Penticton, Kelowna and Kamloops, Interior Health said.

Four people died as a result of a bus rollover on the Okanagan Connector near Merritt Saturday evening, B.C. RCMP has confirmed.

B.C. RCMP say four people died and dozens were sent to hospital when a bus travelling from Kelowna to Vancouver crashed on Christmas Eve.

Ministry of Transportation, said the stretch of road was cleared and reopened shortly before 8:30 a.m. DriveBC, the communications arm of the B.C. Additional critical care staff in areas including emergency departments, medical imaging and surgery were brought in. Director John Stepovy said the vehicle was travelling from Kelowna to Vancouver at the time of the crash. The Mounties said they received multiple calls on Saturday shortly after 6 p.m. Article content

On December 24th 2022 at approximately 18:14 hours the BC Highway Patrol and Merritt RCMP were advised of a single vehicle collision around Loon Lake on Hwy 97c ...

The road conditions were described as very poor with ice and snow on the road surface along with rain and hail falling. Due to the exigent circumstances and injuries many were transported to local hospitals prior to Police having the chance to identify them at scene. BC Coroners service attended the scene. RCMP Collision Re-constructionists attended the scene. Preliminary information indicates the bus was travelling westbound prior to the collision. Police and emergency services responded and located a commercial passenger bus that had gone off road to the left and rolled onto its passenger side coming to rest in the eastbound lanes.

A crash east of Merritt on Highway 97C, near the Loon Lake exit, sent 52 people to four area hospitals.

New Brunswick Power said that roughly 71,000 customers had been affected by what it described as one of the largest outages in the past 25 years. Before the cancellations, nine trains were stranded overnight from Friday to Christmas Eve, owing to power outages or downed trees caused by the winter storm. RCMP confirmed the deaths on Sunday and said in a statement that they are continuing to investigate, but that they believe extremely icy conditions caused the crash. Store manager Judy Lagasse said all of those sheltering at the store were able to leave safely by Saturday afternoon. health authorities issued a Code Orange – a hospital emergency code for mass-casualty situations – on Christmas Eve, as 52 passengers on the bus were sent to four different hospitals in the region. On the morning of Christmas Day, Interior Health said in a statement that 36 of the passengers had required treatment for injuries that ranged from minor to serious. Crews were grappling with fallen trees that had knocked down power lines and poles, making restoration slow and complex. “We borrowed a generator, but it’s only capable of keeping a little heater running for the whole house,” Ms. We have two parrots, a budgie and a bearded dragon that needs heat.” “When mass casualty protocols were activated, health care workers from across the region rushed to assist.” Highway 11 in the province was also still experiencing closings. on Saturday, as the bus was travelling on a section of Highway 97C that runs between Kelowna and Merritt, B.C.

A devastating rollover crash near Merritt, BC on Highway 97C left four dead and dozens injured on Christmas Eve.

8 patients remain in care this AM “Thank you to everyone who answered the call of duty on Christmas Eve,” Dix said, characterizing the incident response as “mass casualty protocol.” A total of 52 patients from the crash were transported to hospital, and eight remained there on Christmas Day, BC’s Health Minister Adrian Dix tweeted.