Woman Killed By Bear While Camping North Of Buffalo Narrows

[Morbid]

A man, a 44-year-old woman, and two children under the age of 10 were camping near McKie Lake when a black bear attacked and killed the woman. No one else was injured. The bear was killed at the scene.

Edam woman was victim of fatal bear attack north of Buffalo Narrows

The province has recorded its first fatal bear attack since 1983. The victim's father, Hubert Esquirol of Edam, has told the press it was his daughter, 44-year-old Stephanie Blais, also of Edam, who was killed.

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[Blizzard]

This would be why you do not let black bears near you, and you assertively and loudly bluff off curious-acting black bears that seem intent on getting close to you.

If it's a mother with cubs :

Identify yourself by speaking in a calm, appeasing tone. Back away slowly, preferably in the direction you came. Walk, don't run, and keep your eye on the bear so you can see how it will react. In most cases, the bear will flee.

The life you save may or may not be your own, and may include the life of the bear.

Bear Encounters — Get Bear Smart

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[Jaded]

I wonder if she at least got to pet it for a second before she was chomped on.

 

[JackBurton]

Rare for a black bear to do it. Shitty.

If i could choose a way to go though, that would be a pretty badass way. I wouldnt want it at age 44 though, most folks still got a decent quality of life and several years of the same to go.

 

[Symmachus]

I wonder why the 44-year-old woman was the only one injured (and killed) by the bear. I wonder what attracted the bear to the woman. It is clearly a sad and tragic incident.

 

[Sejanus]

Something something woman something bear something something honeypot something killed.

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

I wonder what attracted the bear to the woman.

Here is my theory @Symmachus

https://dreamindemon.com/community/threads/take-note-joe-biden-bear-is-castrated-after-smelling-hikers-sweet-sweet-hair.116790/

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

More info has come out about the bear attack. The victim, Stephanie Blais, a very accomplished woman, was speaking on the phone with her father when the bear killed her...

Stephanie Blais, daughter Uma and son Elie, arrive by plane at McKie Lake in Saskatchewan. Blais was attacked and killed by a black bear at the family cabin near Buffalo Narrows, Sask., last Thursday. (Submitted by Hubert Esquirol)
Hubert Esquirol says he was talking on a satellite phone with his daughter, Stephanie Blais, when the 44-year-old was attacked by a black bear at the family cabin on McKie Lake, north of Buffalo Narrows, Sask.
She had called last Thursday at about 5:41 p.m. CST with an update on a malfunctioning water pump and had just sent her nine-year-old son, Elie, into the cabin for an antenna.
Esquirol said he then heard a gurgling noise.

"I waited on the line for two minutes, and I called her name," he said. "I said hello, and there was no answer. So I was talking to her on the phone when the bear attacked her."
According to Esquirol, his daughter would have been making the call facing south in an open area as they have to move away from trees for the satellite phone to work. Buffalo Narrows is 433 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.
The bear, he said, likely would have come up behind her from a forested area with a little pond.
"We speculate that he would have probably jumped up and grabbed her by the neck."
Husband pepper sprays, shoots bear
After waiting two minutes, Esquirol disconnected and called back. No one answered. Seven minutes later, he got a call from his daughter's husband, Curtis Blais, who had been in the cabin's kitchen about 30 metres away.
"Curtis called advising me that a bear attacked her, that he sprayed the bear with pepper spray, and the bear got more angry."

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Esquirol said his son-in-law told him he got a gun and shot the bear twice before it went down.
"So by that time, Stephanie had no pulse. He gave her mouth to mouth, but she was injured beyond the point of recovery."
Esquirol had nothing but praise for how his son-in-law reacted, saying that he did everything that he could "and kept his composure."
RCMP said in a release that Blais had "significant injuries" and was flown to Buffalo Narrows, where she was pronounced dead.

An aerial view shows site of the cabin where the fatal attack happened. (Submitted by Hubert Esquirol)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/edam-sask-woman-killed-by-black-bear-while-on-the-phone-with-her-father-1.5697706

 

[Stebot]

A mourning Canadian father says he was on the phone with his daughter when a bear attacked her and the line went dead. The mauling was fatal.
“I waited on the line for two minutes, and I called her name,” Hubert Esquirol told the Canadian Broadcasting Company. “I said ‘hello,’ and there was no answer.”

Bear kills woman speaking on the phone to her dad. Her husband and kids were nearby

A mourning Canadian father says he was on the phone with his daughter when a bear attacked her and the line went dead. The mauling was fatal. “I waited on the line for two minutes, and I called her name,” Hubert Esquirol told…

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