Tributes are pouring in for Tim Jones, a man who dedicated himself to rescuing people in distress in the western province of British Columbia. Jones died Sunday evening from sudden cardiac arrest near a rescue cabin on Mount Seymour.
The 57 year-old volunteered to lead the community-based North Shore Rescue and had been involved in about 2,000 operations in the past 25 years. These sometimes involved people lost or stranded by bad weather or avalanches. The region is mountainous and people take full advantage of its beauty through hiking, skiing, mountain biking and other activities.
Rescuers searched all night
Lawyer Kathleen Walker remembers the time her son Aaron got lost while snowboarding and was swept down a gully by an avalanche. The team looked for him all night and found him the next day.
“I can honestly say I’ve never been more grateful to anybody in my life than Tim Jones,” said Walker. “When somebody saves your son, it doesn’t get any more important than that. And he didn’t make us feel guilty.”
By day, Jones worked as an advanced life-support paramedic and paramedic-in-charge for the B.C. Ambulance Service in North Vancouver. He was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2011.
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