Tim Beard’s alarm blares to life, cutting through the silence of the small room and rousing the Life Flight nurse from a shallow sleep. Beard, 46, has just 10 minutes—eight minutes during daylight hours—to jump out of bed, pull on his flame-retardant jumpsuit, and climb into a fully equipped medical …
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On a chilly February morning, snow drifted onto the rushing water as Drew Stephens and his fellow kayakers paddled on the Spokane River near the State Line bridge. The group of five Spokane and Coeur d’Alene residents stayed together, near one powerful eddy line. The kayakers wore gloves, brightly colored …
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