Ashleigh Nicole Cox went to American Fork Canyon with her friends to go snowshoeing. Unfortunately they somehow started and avalanche. Nicole was buried for forty minuets before the rescue party pulled her out. The news article says that they waited twenty minutes for the rescue party to get out there and then another twenty minuets to get her out.
The news article also reads that the BYU student didn't have a pulse when they pulled her out. She was critically injured, but luckily they were able to revive her.
There's been other avalanches in American Fork Canyon too and they had to block the roads. The roads they were forced to block were route one hundred forty-four and route ninety-two.
When I read this news article I was shocked because I thought avalanches only occurred in places like Mt. Everest. Now I know that they can basically happen anywhere there is snow.
I also wonder why the rescue party didn't send a helicopter out to rescue her. Wouldn't you suffocate under the snow? It doesn't take long to suffocate and it doesn't take long to fly either. My mom told me that when they use helicopters its for emergency situations that are the most close to the person dying. Wouldn't this situation qualify?
What about heart attacks and the many other life and death situations there are. Why don't they qualify? Is it too much money to run the helicopter to save someone's life, or maybe they aren't sure how serious the situation is.
I also thought, don't they have signs. You know, signs that say, "Warning, don't go past this point, because there are avalanches in this area. The thing is that families go tubing and snowshoeing here. If its meant for families to have fun it needs to be safe. It can't be some fun thing that could be your grave. People pay money to have fun doing these thing, but not to buried under feet of snow.
We need to take the necessary precautions to protect people from being harmed. Even if its simply with a sign.
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