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| Subject: Lol, Army Soldier Falls Into Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano After Straining For Better View Fri May 03, 2019 7:44 pm | |
| A 32-year-old soldier, straining to get a better view of the inside of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, was seriously injured after he fell from a 300-foot-high cliff into the volcano crater.
According to a parks spokesman, the man climbed over a metal guardrail to get a better vantage point. Then the ground beneath him collapsed.
Army officials say the man is a soldier from Schofield Barracks, on the island of Oahu, and was on Hawaii's Big Island for training exercises. An eyewitness saw the man fall into the volcano around 6:30 p.m. and immediately notified authorities.
Rescue workers were able to rappel down the inside of the volcano, where they found the man on a ledge 70 feet below the rim. They attached him to a stretcher and airlifted him out of the crater, with the help of a military helicopter.
He was flown to Hilo Medical Center in critical condition.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/719866004/army-soldier-falls-into-hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-after-straining-for-better-view?fbclid=IwAR0yp43lSNt17Td0C-8-Z7BtJYyJfLVYgrCBR8gejhmAMAUPd-Bj3vz1KQI |
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