Man stumbles and falls 40 feet down waterfall, Oregon rescuers say. ‘Lengthy rescue’
A man was rescued after he fell over a cliff and plunged 40 feet down a waterfall, Oregon fire officials say.
While the man did not have life-threatening injuries from his fall at Sahalie Falls the morning of Wednesday, June 5, he could not walk, the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District said in a Facebook post.
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When medics arrived, they found bystanders trying to help the man, who was “extremely cold,” near the base of the falls, according to rescuers.
Officials said they used a rope system during “the lengthy rescue,” which involved multiple agencies, to hoist the man “up the face of a cliff to the trail.”
Afterwards, rescuers said they carried the man for about a half a mile to a parking lot, where he was airlifted to a hospital.
Sahalie Falls, about 70-mile drive northeast of Eugene, is one two waterfalls along the “Waterfalls Loop Trail, part of the McKenzie River National Recreation Trail,” according to the United States Forest Service.
“These falls mark the terminus of two thick flows of basaltic andesite lava that dammed Clear Lake and moved into the McKenzie River 3,000 years ago,” the agency says. “The results are two breathtaking waterfalls with foaming white water cascades in between.”
This story was originally published June 6, 2024 at 10:23 AM with the headline "Man stumbles and falls 40 feet down waterfall, Oregon rescuers say. ‘Lengthy rescue’."
