{"id":13369,"date":"2012-07-16T10:39:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2012-07-16T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:07:02","slug":"injured-cinebar-woman-rescued-from-steep-banks-of-tilton-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=13369","title":{"rendered":"Injured Cinebar woman rescued from steep banks of Tilton River"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter
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\nA 46-year-old Cinebar woman had to be hoisted by helicopter cable from the banks of the Tilton River yesterday after a river rafting accident the day before left her stranded with a dislocated shoulder.<\/p>\n

The woman, her husband and their 14-year-old son had capsized at a water fall on Saturday evening, were tossed into the water and ended up spending the night on the rocky shore, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n

She was injured when she struck a rock, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n

The father and son hiked up steep terrain to the Bear Canyon Tree Farm west of Morton where they called 911 just before 7 o’clock yesterday morning, Lewis County Fire DIstrict 8 Chief Duran McDaniel said.<\/p>\n

It took until 9:30 a.m. for fire department personnel to locate her, he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a rather steep bank, wooded and 750-feet down the river,” McDaniel said.<\/p>\n

About 20 responders assembled yesterday morning as they contemplated whether to use a boat to get her out or the high-angle rescue specialists from Packwood Search and Rescue, according to the chief.<\/p>\n

They decided it was not an option to float her out because of rapids and bringing her up the back would have taken too long, he said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office search and rescue coordinator requested air support and a helicopter from the U.S. Coast Guard in Astoria, Ore. responded.<\/p>\n

“That was about 3 p.m.,” McDaniel said. “The helicopter arrived, basketed the patient. In nine minutes they were in and out.”<\/p>\n

The woman was taken to the Salkum Fire Hall on U.S. Highway 12 where awaiting medics gave her something for pain and transported her to Providence Centralia Hospital.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office said the family was traveling in a two-man raft with the woman in an inner tube attached behind the raft. They had launched about 4 p.m. Saturday from the Bremer Bridge at state Route 508.<\/p>\n

None had been wearing life jackets, the sheriff’s office noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A 46-year-old Cinebar woman had to be hoisted by helicopter cable from the banks of the Tilton River yesterday after a river rafting accident the day before left her stranded with a dislocated shoulder. The woman, her husband and their 14-year-old son had capsized at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13374,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions\/13374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}