Emergency crews area currently searching for a helicopter that went down east of Revelstoke Friday night (Jan. 5)
Revelstoke RCMP Sgt. Chris Dodds said that the division received a call from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Comox, which is a search-and-rescue division of the Royal Canadian Airforce. At roughly 7 p.m. on Jan. 5, the JRCC indicated that a helicopter had activated its emergency location transmitter (ELT).
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