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County Search & Rescue Helps Skier With Medical Condition

MEISSNER SNO PARK-- A man from Albany who had a medical emergency while skiing was helped by Deschutes County Sheriff Search and Rescue yesterday. Police received 9-1-1 calls that 58 year old Chris Fox had skied close to a shelter at the Meisner Sno Park off Century Drive but was unable to continue. Search and Rescue got as close to Fox as they could with snowmobiles but then had to use snowshoes to reach him. The medical team determined Fox was having a serious medical condition. He was taken by the Search and Rescue Snow Ambulance to a parking lot where he was transferred to a Bend Fire Department ground ambulance and taken to Saint Charles Bend. 

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