“Remote community: Tumbler Ridge, where about 2,400 people live, was originally established as a coal-mining town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, according to the town’s website. ... “This is a small, close-knit town, and the impact of an event like this is felt by everyone.””

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“Tumbler Ridge, the remote British Columbia town where a shooter killed 9 people on Tuesday at a school and residence before dying of a self-inflicted injury, has a population of about 2,400 people and lies near the border with Alberta.The town sits at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, in the province’s northeast, and is surrounded by expansive mountain ranges and a geological park recognized by UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency. It is so remote that cellphone service cuts out about 30 seconds into a car ride out of town, said Danielle Roscher, the owner of a local outdoor tour company.Against that backdrop, the attacks that unfolded on Tuesday are even more unsettling, she said. “It just doesn’t even seem real.”Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where the shooting occurred, has 160 to 175 students, according to the websites for the school district and provincial government. Because of the school’s small size, there is a “tremendous sense of community” between staff and students, the district’s website said.”

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“The shooting has shaken the residents of Tumbler Ridge, a remote town of 2,400 people in northeastern British Columbia.”

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“The scale of the shooting is devastating for the remote town of just 2,400 people, on the eastern flank of the Rockies, where few people are strangers.”

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“Tumbler Ridge is roughly 730 miles northeast of Vancouver in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, near the border with Alberta. The close-knit community, which has a population of about 2,400, was originally a coal-mining hub but now pitches itself as a hub for outdoor tourism. The shooting has devastated the town.“I will know every victim,” Mayor Darryl Krakowka told the CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, after sheltering in the town hall.“We’re a small community,” he said. “I don’t call them residents. I call them family.””

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“The red brick complex of the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School was where the siblings learned and played alongside dozens of other children in the small remote community of just 2,400 in rural British Columbia.But the rhythm of another school day was devastatingly shattered when shots rang through the halls.Ethan crouched in a utility closet and messaged his parents. Kylie was not with him.ImageKylie Smith, 12, loved art and dreamed of going to college in Toronto.Credit...Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceIt would take hours, her father, Lance Younge, said in an interview on Wednesday, before he learned his daughter had been killed in one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history.The shooter, identified by the authorities as Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, used two firearms to kill six people and herself at the school, after killing her mother, Jennifer Jacobs, 39, and 11-year-old brother, Emmett Jacobs, in their home, plunging Tumbler Ridge and the rest of the country into stunned grief.”

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