{"id":93395,"date":"2019-06-18T01:54:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T01:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boys-spur-search-and-rescue-effort-after-falling-from-raft\/"},"modified":"2019-06-18T01:54:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T01:54:15","slug":"boys-spur-search-and-rescue-effort-after-falling-from-raft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boys-spur-search-and-rescue-effort-after-falling-from-raft\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys spur search and rescue effort after falling from raft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ec95ec5-6d29-458f-9863-019e0313e40f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1875\" height=\"1622\" alt=\"The area of the Dolores River search and rescue effort.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The area of the Dolores River search and rescue effort.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Search and rescue teams swarmed to the Dolores River south of Rico on Monday evening to search for two boys who had fallen out of a raft in swift water.<\/p>\n<p>The teenagers, both 17, were found safe along the shore about a half-hour into the search. They were on a family vacation from Arizona and were staying at a local cabin.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around mile marker 40 of Colorado Highway 145, downstream of Ryman Creek. The swimmers were wearing life jackets, according to rescue reports. A third person also fell out the raft but quickly got to shore.<\/p>\n<p>A ground search was launched along the banks of the river, and first responders were positioned at bridges at Roaring Fork, Hillside Drive and the West Fork.<\/p>\n<p>Local emergency responders included Montezuma County Search and Rescue, Dolores Fire Department, Rico Fire Department and the Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Searchers found an empty raft, then saw that the two swimmers had made it to shore on the bank opposite of the highway. A rescue raft was deployed, and the boys brought back across the river and reunited with their family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was fine, and it was a good response by local emergency crews,\u201d said Sheriff Steve Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>The section of river where the mishap occurred was flowing above 1,000 cubic feet per second and was under a flood warning Monday by the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jmimiaga@the-journal.com\">jmimiaga@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responders mobilize to Dolores River south of Rico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5786,5956,5740,5737,5736,5735,5741],"tags":[44,341,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dolores","category-dolores-river","category-frontpage-lead","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-river","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93395"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}