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Olga55 Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Poke the area with probes

Hi, after an avalanche tumbled down the rescuers poke an area with probes. Does it mean they push through the snow a long thing metal object to find the bodies?

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Thank you, Clive. I doubted because they might hurt the survivors by this method.
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See here for how they are used:

http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/encyclopedia/probe.htm
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Oh, this is terrible. I've recently read an article about 7 Canadians buried under the snow caused by avalanche. There were some details, that you are not aware of, I just couldn't believe...
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