Early Thursday morning, the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR) team was called to help the RCMP find a patient missing from 91大黄鸭 General Hospital.

At around 2 a.m., COSAR got a call from the 91大黄鸭 RCMP asking for help to find a patient who had walked away from the hospital shortly after having surgery.

Ground crews on foot and e-bikes searched the area along Abbott Street, and at 8 a.m. a team found the missing patient鈥檚 backpack.

COSAR鈥檚 new labrador retriever, Chase, was brought to the scene and within minutes he had located the 86-year-old man lying under a pile of leaves and suffering from severe hypothermia.

Chase was lovingly nicknamed 鈥楾he Wonder Dog鈥� by the COSAR, just two weeks ago when he joined the team. He is two-and-a-half years old and, along with his handler Terry Downs, has spent over 2,000 hours training.

鈥淩esearch has shown that search and rescue dogs are equivalent to 20 ground personnel,鈥� says COSAR search manager Kevin Birnie. 鈥淗e proved his worth today.鈥�

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