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Updated: 11:52 AM Jun 20, 2008
Woodland Park Man Dies In Rafting Accident
A Woodland Park man is dead after a commercial rafting accident on the Arkansas River in Chaffee County. (Photos courtesy Matt Kroschel, The Mountain Mail)
Posted: 9:22 AM Jun 20, 2008Reporter: Associated Press |
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A Woodland Park man is dead after a commercial rafting accident on the Arkansas River in Chaffee County. (Photos courtesy Matt Kroschel, The Mountain Mail)
Sixty-one-year-old James Kennedy was on the rafting trip Thursday afternoon when the raft he was riding in hit a center pier bridge support and flipped over, dumping Kennedy, two other rafters and their guide into the rushing water.
The group had launched from a boat ramp just moments before.
Two of the rafters and the guide managed to crawl to shore, but the water swept Kennedy downstream another half-mile before he could be pulled out.
Off-duty Salida Fire Captain was kayaking in the area and administered first aid to Kennedy.
He was taken to Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center where he later died.
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My sympathies to the Kennedy Family, as well. If that is the bridge by the park in downtown Salida the water really has risen since last week at Fib-Ark. What a tragedy.
That is so sad ,my sympathies to Mr. Kennedy's family
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