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Four women saved from wildfire only because of Apple Satellite SOS feature
As wildfires continue to burn throughout B.C., a group of four women were helicoptered off a glacier in the West Kootenay region, leading experts to warn people to be careful.
A search and rescue team flew through thick smoke, near an approaching wildfire to find the hikers, who were stranded on the Macbeth Ice Fields, northeast of Kaslo, about 390 kilometres east of Kelowna. Jennings-Bates said the stranded women were able to send a text message via satellite through Apple's emergency SOS function, and that ultimately made the rescue possible. The Kaslo Search and Rescue team had to fly a helicopter through thick smoke to find a group of stranded hikers near an alpine lake at the Macbeth Icefields in B.C.
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