kudos to the SAR team for trying! my hat goes off to those that willingly put themselves in peril to help another. not many of us would be willing to do the same time and again.
Well said, bacpacjac. That is dangerous work and the SAR should be given full credit for attempting the rescue at great risk to their own lives.
The decison to end the rescue came after two unsuccessful attempts by search teams to descend into the shaft, where Westenskow was trapped in debris, Doran Sanchez, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokesman, said Saturday.
An attempt Thursday caused walls of the 100-plus-year-old shaft to crumble and rocks to fall on rescuers, he said."One individual was hit in the head by falling rock and it split his hard hat," Sanchez said. "You're talking about two of the best search and rescue squads in Nevada, and they finally determined there was no way they could safely rappel down."
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