2011 Helicopter Crash
On May 20, 2011, a Bell 212 helicopter crashed into the lake while fighting the 2011 Slave Lake fire. The pilot, 54-year-old Jean-Luc Deba of Montreal, died. On the one-year anniversary, a park at Canyon Creek was named in Deba's honor.
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Famous quotes containing the word crash:
“You crash over the trees,
you crack the live branch.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)