TO THE RESCUE: An off-duty California Highway Patrol officer, along with other good Samaritans, came to the rescue of a hiker who became trapped in a raging whirlpool.
ABC News chronicles the rising cases of coronavirus across the U.S. and how politicians, celebrities and the public reacted.A hiker is lucky to be alive after getting caught in swift river water just as an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer trekking a secluded trail with his wife spotted him and teamed with other good Samaritans to pull him to safety, officials said.
The river rescue drama unfolded on Saturday in the remote Angel Falls wilderness area near Yosemite National Park, the Madera County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. A 24-year-old Fresno, California, man was hiking in the area along Willow Creek just above Bass Lake around noon, when he tried to wade across the creek,"misjudging the swiftness of the water," the sheriff's office said.
The man, whose name was not released, was quickly knocked off his feet by a strong river current fueled by the snowmelt in the Sierra mountains, according to the sheriff's office. "The flow overwhelmed and swept him into a whirlpool, which held him under," the statement from the sheriff's office reads.
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