ap.crawford@skipatrol.ca<\/b><\/i><\/a>)<\/b><\/i><\/p>\nDevin Hanes, Jill Beuermann, Margaret Wilton Siegel, Sophie Gravel, Brian Mitchell – Central Zone, Ontario Division<\/h3>\n
In the late morning of March 22, 2025, (Ontario\u2019s school March break) at Osler Bluff Ski Club (near Collingwood, Ontario), a call came into the administration office via cell phone for a serious incident at the split between two runs. The office called the patrol by radio; patrol manager Brian Mitchell answered and asked the patrollers on the hill to respond to the scene.<\/p>\n
Jill Beuermann and Devin Hanes were the first to arrive on scene where a group of skiers was standing and waving frantically. They then saw a skier well off the trail, lying on his right side between trees in deep snow. He was conscious, moving his head, arms and feet, and appeared to be in a lot of pain. Witnesses stated that he hit a tree.<\/p>\n
Devin proceeded to the patient who told him he had collided with his son and then flown off the run and hit a tree. Jill immediately requested additional assistance and equipment, and then proceeded to assess the child, treated for a minor bloody nose and passed him off to his mother before joining Devin and the main patient.<\/p>\n
The patient complained of intense pain in his back, had laboured (short and shallow) breathing, but no pain, numbness or tingling in his neck, or fingers and toes and was also able to wiggle them. The back pain was located in the thoracic spinal area but there was no wetness or blood found. He also presented with pain on the right side of his chest, again no wetness or blood was found. His pulse was strong and rapid.<\/p>\n
At this point additional assistance including CSP patrollers Margaret Wilton Siegel and Sophie Gravel, and equipment began to arrive along with some paid weekday patrollers, one of whom took over the radio communications. EMS was activated. Four patrollers rolled the patient onto a backboard and secured him for transport. Then, working together the team stabilized the patient and loaded him into the toboggan for transport down the hill to one of the patrol rooms.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Brian had also arrived on scene by snowmobile and took information from the patient\u2019s wife plus obtained witness statements and generally managed the scene.<\/p>\n
As the patient was being transported, other members of the team quickly cleaned up the scene, then followed down to the patrol hut. Dr. Mark Bonta, a midweek patroller and off-duty physician from the local hospital, met the group and performed a quick assessment of the patient\u2019s chest and breathing and monitored his vital signs. Devin retook the patient\u2019s vital signs and performed a full secondary assessment.<\/p>\n
When the ambulance arrived, the patrollers assisted with the transfer from the backboard to the EMS stretcher and patient care was transferred to EMS.<\/p>\n
The patient was taken to the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital where his pneumothorax was treated. He was then transferred to a Toronto hospital trauma centre where surgery was performed the next morning.<\/p>\n
It was confirmed that the patient suffered spinal fractures of T6 to T12 but that his spinal cord was intact, a fractured scapula, flail chest, and pneumothorax.<\/p>\n
The team of CSP patrollers Devin Hanes, Jill Beuermann, Margaret Wilton Siegel, Sophie Gravel and Brian Mitchell who worked seamlessly with the other paid patrollers and resort staff at the scene were recognized for their actions with the John D. Harper Lifesaving Award in September of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By A.P. Crawford (ap.crawford@skipatrol.ca) Devin Hanes, Jill Beuermann, Margaret Wilton Siegel, Sophie Gravel, Brian Mitchell – Central Zone, Ontario Division In the late morning of March 22, 2025, (Ontario\u2019s school March break) at Osler Bluff Ski Club (near Collingwood, Ontario),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3206,"featured_media":22122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[552,562,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-552","category-june-2026","category-public-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22298,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22256\/revisions\/22298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipatrol.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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