A 14-year-old boy was flown to a hospital by Life Flight helicopter Friday afternoon after his leg became pinned between large rocks in a pool of rushing water at rugged and remote Dougan Falls, Dolce & Gabbana Handags Replica on the upper Washougal River about 17 miles from Washougal.
Two witnesses described a dramatic rescue effort in which two men and a woman stood in the frigid pool below a small waterfall, struggling to hold the trapped teens head above water as he fought to survive for perhaps an hour or more before official rescuers arrived.
I was just so impressed and in awe of the resilience the boy had, said Lacey Barlow, 23, who had gone to the falls to swim with friends. He fought for so long.
Barlow and another woman said the boy had turned blue and appeared unconscious after a large group of swimmers finally used a rope to dislodge his leg from the rocks and pull him from the water.
Rescuers were called to the scene at 12:45 p.m., and the boy, once freed, was airlifted to Southwest Washington Medical Center, according to a bulletin from Chief Criminal Deputy Pat Bond with the Skamania County Sheriffs Office.
The boy, whose name was not released, is a resident of Wilsonville, Ore., and his medical condition at the medical center wasnt known late Friday night, the bulletin said.
Jill Clark, a Portland resident, said shed been at Dougan Falls to enjoy the water with her children on the hot afternoon when she first realized something was wrong.
People ran by me to go call 911, she said. You could tell they were frantic by the look on their faces.
The area has no cell phone service, and the folks who wanted to call 911 would have to drive to the nearest home, Clark said.
bedat and co Looking to see what was happening, she saw three people standing in several feet of water below the small waterfall, trying to hold the teens head above the rushing water.
They brought in an inner tube for the kid to hold onto, Clark said. They said his leg was wedged between rocks. They couldnt pull him out. They were struggling to keep the kid up. They did everything they could.
The water is really intense there, said Barlow, also a Portland resident. It pushes you down. He went under the water and came back up. He was like screaming his leg was caught.
As the two men and woman standing in the cold water tried to hold onto the teen, a large group of other swimmers tried standing close together above the pool, trying to block the water flow with their bodies, Barlow said.
Someone strung a rope across the river to try to help the teen stay above water, Barlow said.
The water was rushing into his mouth. He could barely breathe. That went on for an hour before the ambulance came, she said.
When official rescuers finally arrived, both women said, they felt the officials did too little to help the people in the water with the drowning teen.
One of the men in the pool yelled for someone to take his place and a man did, Barlow said. Meanwhile, The boy was like in and out of consciousness. They were trying to hold him up.
A diver suited up with scuba gear and went into the water to help, and tried to give the boy air from a tank.
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