Richard Dewhurst (b. 1964)
Richard Dewhurst was born and raised in Teslin. In July 2011, he saved the life of a young Zoom Boom driver after he flipped his machine into the ditch on the Alaska Highway. Dewhurst got the driver out of his vehicle just minutes before it was engulphed in flames. The door was trapped under the vehicle and Dewhurst had to break a small window and drag the driver to safety. The Yukon commissioner presented Richard Dewhurst with an award for bravery in 2012. This was not the first time Dewhurst was involved in a harrowing rescue. In 2003, he was working in the bush with others travelling on snowmobiles when a companion flipped on lake ice and crashed into a rocky shore. The party was able to get him safety and he lived.1) In 2020, Ricard Dewhurst was working as the Senior Game Guardian for the Teslin Tlingit Council.