Eight people were rescued early Sunday morning by Prince George Search and Rescue after a cold and buggy night on an island in the Willow River.
According to a Facebook post, PGSAR members were mobilized overnight when a group of adults and kids were reported overdue from a late-day tubing float on a remote stretch of the river.
Crews noted the distances were greater than they anticipated and their tubes became damaged during the trip and when it became evening they were swept into a log jam.
Search and Rescue added they self rescued then decided to stay put, huddle together, and wait for dawn in their wet bathing suits.
RCMP located them by drone and we worked together to extract them from the river environment.
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