{"id":28306,"date":"2013-02-15T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T07:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/avalanche-claims-two-more-lives-032814779.html"},"modified":"2013-02-15T08:13:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T07:13:46","slug":"avalanche-claims-a-third-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/avalanche-claims-a-third-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche claims a third victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">A man injured in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands which killed another man and a woman has died, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The trio were airlifted from the Chalamain Gap area of the Cairngorms to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary shortly after 12.30pm on Thursday, where a man and the woman died.<\/p>\n<p>The second man, left in a critical condition, died from his injuries, Northern Constabulary said. His family was being informed.<\/p>\n<p>Police, Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team, search and rescue dogs, RAF Lossiemouth&#8217;s rescue team and a helicopter were involved in the operation yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>David Rutledge, the training officer for Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team, was involved in controlling the operation from the team&#8217;s base.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;We started mobilising within 15 minutes of the call coming through. We had a helicopter here incredibly quickly. We had three doctors available straight away who were able to get to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a fairly contained scenario. We were able to deal with an incident which was relatively close to the roadside, within 2km of the ski road and in a very contained area. From that perspective, no search was necessary. The key aspect to this was to get people there as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two helicopters from RAF Lossiemouth, Rescue 137 and 138, were involved in the operation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rutledge said two parties of six were involved in the incident Those not taken to hospital were walked off the hill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man injured in an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands which killed another man and a woman has died, police have said.<br \/>\nThe trio were airlifted from the Chalamain Gap area of the Cairngorms to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary shortly after 12.30pm on Thursda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}