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According to Manitoba RCMP, on Jan. 31, their Gypsumville detachment got a call about a woman they were told was outside of a home and in medical distress in the Pinaymootang First Nation, a community located more than 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, in the Interlake. Temperatures that evening had dipped to around -26C and felt like \u201329C with the windchill. 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According to Manitoba RCMP, on Jan. 31, their Gypsumville detachment got a call about a woman they were told was outside of a home and in medical distress in the Pinaymootang First Nation, a community located more than 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, in the Interlake. Temperatures that evening had dipped to around -26C and felt like \u201329C with the windchill. 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