{"id":134050,"date":"2025-08-10T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134050\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:52:13","slug":"39-year-old-missing-in-central-b-c-wilderness-found-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134050\/","title":{"rendered":"39 year-old missing in central B.C. wilderness found alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Police in British Columbia are sharing more details about an impressive story of survival in the province\u2019s Cariboo region.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Barber was found by search and rescue crews Friday, after a helicopter spotted his truck on a forest service road, leading to crews honing in on the area.<\/p>\n<p>The 39 year-old had been last seen on July 28 near Castle Rock, west of the Fraser River between Quesnel and Williams Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Staff Sergeant Brad McKinnon with the Williams Lake RCMP detachment shared an update with Global News on Barber\u2019s condition Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased to announce that it looks like he\u2019s going to be healthy and perfectly okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McKinnon says while the specifics around Barber\u2019s trip are unclear, his vehicle broke down on the rural road in late July.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took steps to shelter and survive and trusted that first responders working on the case would find him and that\u2019s exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Man rescued after spending over a week in B.C. wilderness'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WEB_LT_QUESNEL_WILDERNESS_RESCUE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:34<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMan rescued after spending over a week in B.C. wilderness\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Bob Zimmerman with Quesnel Search and Rescue says Barber was located a few kilometres west of where had been last seen more than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11328411\/montreal-father-assaulted\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Montreal-attack.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMontreal father assaulted in front of his children leads to outrage from officials\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11328390\/landlord-bc-billionaires-hudson-bay-properties-defies-commercial-common-sense\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4bd6cde4ee8b3efa3730459bd77d8e25c1276abae07d244edbb7b798c6acdd61_caa0fd.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLandlord says B.C. billionaire\u2019s plan for Bay properties \u2018defies commercial common sense\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was in pretty weak condition. It\u2019s not known if he would have made another 24 hours, because all he had survived on was just some water,\u201d said Zimmerman.<\/p>\n<p>Barber and his shelter were found near a large rock with an SOS message written on it in mud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had taken some grass and stuffed in his clothing for insulation, he built himself a small shelter. He was drinking pond water to survive. We\u2019re just very happy that he was found alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>McKinnon noted crews spent days scouring hundreds of kilometres of backcountry to find Barber, equating the operation to finding a needle in a haystack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got lucky and we\u2019re pretty pleased with what took place but geographically, this is a significant area in terms of land mass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After being found and extracated, Barber was treated for dehydration at Cariboo Memorial Hopsital in Williams Lake. 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