DENVER (KDVR) — Two rafters were rescued from the Roaring Fork River near the Basalt Whitewater Park in Pitkin County on Saturday, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office, including one man who had life-threatening injuries. According to the agency, the call was received by the Pitkin County Regional Emergency Dispatch Center at about 2:05 […]
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6 rafters rescued from ‘drowning machine’ on Willamette River
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Six people floating down the Willamette River on inner tubes were saved from a hazardous low-head dam packed with logs east of I-5 in Lane County on May 18. Rescuers were called to the low-head dam located just upstream of the Whilamut Passage Bridge after five of the rafters went over […]