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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Two radical had to beryllium rescued from "one of the astir dangerous" places successful Madera County implicit the weekend.
Deputies accidental EMS responded to abstracted rescues astatine Angel Falls connected Sunday. One of the rescues progressive a breached arm, portion the different progressive a caput injury.
Both victims received attraction and are expected to recover, but Sheriff Tyson Pogue says these incidents are a reminder that adjacent beauteous places tin airs superior dangers.
"Angel Falls is 1 of the astir beauteous places successful Madera County, but tin besides beryllium 1 of the astir dangerous," Pogue said. "Almost each year, idiosyncratic slips, falls into the h2o and dies, oregon is earnestly injured."
He continues connected to accidental the rocks that look adust are often "as slick arsenic ice," and that the h2o that whitethorn look calm is freezing acold and often hides a almighty existent underneath the surface.
Just 1 period ago, a antheral was rescued from the h2o successful Angel Falls aft suffering a compound limb fracture. In May, hunt and rescue responded to the aforesaid country for a near-drowning.
While nary fatalities person been reported this year, successful 2024, two radical died astatine Angel Falls aft 1 attempted to rescue the different from drowning.
