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A Utah man who died in a rafting accident at Dinosaur Nationwide Monument in Colorado has been recognized as a 27-year veteran of the Salt Lake Metropolis Fireplace Division.
Michael Harp, 54, was a part of a gaggle taking a personal permitted rafting journey down the Inexperienced River within the Canyon of Lodore round 4 p.m. Thursday when their boat grew to become caught on a rock within the fast referred to as Hells Half Mile, the U.S. Nationwide Park Service mentioned.
Monument workers responded to the rafting accident and realized that Harp was lacking and believed to be pinned underneath the raft. The rafting group dislodged the boat from the rock, however officers mentioned Harp was unresponsive and “drifted downriver.”
Harp had been carrying a life jacket however misplaced it by the point the group unpinned the boat, in line with the NPS.
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Salt Lake Metropolis Fireplace Captain Michael Harp, 54, died Thursday in a rafting accident on the Inexperienced River in Dinosaur Nationwide Monument, officers mentioned. (Salt Lake Metropolis Fireplace Division)
River Patrol Rangers launched a seek for Harp. Round 7:45 a.m. Friday, Harp’s physique was discovered about 10 river miles downstream by guides from industrial rafting firm Adrift.
His physique was airlifted to the Moffat County coroner. No additional particulars about Harp’s dying had been instantly out there.
Harp was a part of a rafting group taking a personal permitted journey on the Inexperienced River when the raft received caught on a rock. Harp was believed to have been pinned underneath the raft. (Nationwide Park Service/Dan Johnson)
Harp, from Sandy, Utah, was a second-generation firefighter who served as a hearth captain within the Salt Lake Metropolis Fireplace Division, the division wrote in a social media submit on Saturday.
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He was a 27-year veteran of the division, following within the footsteps of his father, and had notably deployed to Floor Zero after 9/11, in line with the division.
Harp, pictured with one other firefighter, notably deployed to Floor Zero in New York Metropolis after 9/11, the hearth division mentioned. (Salt Lake Metropolis Fireplace Division)
“Captain Michael Harp devoted his life to the service of not solely the residents of Salt Lake Metropolis, but additionally his fellow firefighters,” the division wrote. “His legacy of service, management, compassion, and contagious laughter will perpetually be remembered by all who knew him.”
Dinosaur Nationwide Monument is unfold over 210,000 acres throughout Colorado and Utah. Whereas greatest identified for a quarry that holds preserved dinosaur fossils, whitewater rafters from world wide are drawn to the monument’s Inexperienced and Yampa rivers that minimize although its famed canyons.
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Throughout the days surrounding the accident, the NPS mentioned that circulate charges for the Canyon of Lodore part of the Inexperienced River averaged 4,700 cubic toes per second.
Utah hearth captain dies in Colorado rafting accident at Dinosaur Nationwide Monument
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