Water Rescues

[jimmnn]

Lots of water rescues underway in Denver if folks are interested in listening.

I-25 / Alameda

Evans & Monaco

Santa Fe & Alameda

Decatur & Howard

etc

O/F Den-800, Online

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[jimmnn]

Denver U/D: Now req more Dist 1 and 6 cars to search the Platte River for a missing baby in there stroller.

Now requesting pipe poles to check the grates.

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[jimmnn]

Denver U/D: DPD has a visual of the stroller at Park Avenue and the Platte River unknown if it's still occupied. Also advising Adams County agencies as well.

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[COBronco]

kinda exciting, not a real good command structure..

[jimmnn]

Originally Posted by COBronco

kinda exciting, not a real good command structure..

Not in the least there are too many different incidents underway and they loss control when about the 4th call came in, especially considering they only have one underwater rescue unit and divers.

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[jimmnn]

Aurora: NB I-225 Colfax to I-70 is a lake, req the highway be closed immediatly and checking a few cars that are partially submerged.

O/F Aur-800 Tac-2, Online

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[jimmnn]

Denver: Yale & Quebec another water rescue with a police officer now swimming trying to rescue the person.

Now saying another child possibly in the water setting up about 7100 East Evans.

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[COBronco]

15-20yo male in the water in the park

[COBronco]

two officers needing ems for hypothermia

[jimmnn]

DENVER – A search is underway for a missing boy, small enough to be in a stroller, after he and his mother got swept away in the heavy rain Monday evening.

The Denver Fire Department and Dive Team are helping to search for the boy. The search began near Howard Place and Decatur Street and now crews are searching a one-mile stretch along the Platte River.

Denver Fire says the mother was pushing Jose Jaureguei III in a stroller along the river when they were swept away. The boy was still in the stroller.

Rescue workers were able to get the boy's mother out of the water.

They say as they were searching, some members of the Dive Team were nearly swept away by the rushing waters.

Jose Jaureguei says his daughter-in-law and his grandson, Jose Jaureguei III, went for a walk Monday afternoon, as is their routine. He called his daughter-in-law, telling her there was a storm on the way and that they should come home. That was the last he heard from them.

His wife later contacted him and told him the boy's mother was in the hospital and little Jose was missing.

9NEWS took video of the pathway they walked on and it was completely covered with water.

Denver Fire says they are hoping to find the boy, but they are becoming more pessimistic as time passes.

[jimmnn]

DenverPost.com
*BREAKING NEWS*

Denver firefighters and dive rescue experts spent the evening trying to save two people who were lost when torrential rains turned streams into rushing rivers.

A teenaged boy is missing after being swept away in Bible Park, near Yale and Quebec. A Denver firefighter got in trouble as he tried to rescue the boy. The firefighter had to be rescued himself. His condition is unknown. The boy, estimated to be between 15 and 20 years old, has not been identified.

Rescuers also searched the South Platte River for a missing child. He and his mother had been walking alongside a small stream that got suddenly flooded by rain water. A stroller was found about a mile downstream.

[jimmnn]

DENVER - A body, believed to be that of a missing 2-year-old boy swept away with his mother Monday by a flash flood, was recovered in the South Platte River midday Wednesday.

Jose Matthew Jauregui III went missing during Monday night's heavy rain while with his mother in Lakewood Gulch, near the South Platte River.

9NEWS has learned that crews located a body near Franklin Street and Race Court shortly before 1 p.m.

They responded to the area after receiving reports from construction workers who said they saw a body floating in the river.

Authorities say they believe it is the body of a child but did not immediately confirm that it was the body of Jose.

Jose's family has arrived at the scene, including the boy's mother, Elsha Guel.

Jose's great aunt, Julie Guzman, says the family had gone to the river roughly and hour-and-a-half before the body was found and prayed.

"We prayed by the creek earlier today that he would be found and that Jesus would bring him home to us today and he did," she said.

Guzman added, "This is both a sad and happy day for us," sad because he was found dead, but happy because he was found.

She also asked that the family be given time to grieve the loss of Jose.

Fire rescue crews had been searching for the boy for the past two days without success. Wednesday morning crews focused on the banks of the river.

Crews say they had switched to recovery mode Monday night after Jose went missing.

Guel was trapped by a tall concrete along the path and firefighters say there was not any way for her to get back up to the street level and away from the water. Firefighters say the water rushed in, in a matter of seconds, knocking her over and the stroller out of her hand.

"I can't imagine the horror of the woman seeing the child drift away perhaps forever," said Lt. Phil Champagne with the Denver Fire Department.

The water was so swift that elite divers with the fire department were almost swept away trying to get to her.

They say the Guel was clinging to a concrete section of a bridge when they finally got to her.

"The only question on her mind was had we rescued her child. When we told her we hadn't and we attempted to rescue her she looked at the rescuer, let go of the concrete barrier and said she no longer wanted to live without her child," said Champagne.

Rescuers pulled her out a few hundred yards away. She was taken to the hospital where she was treated and released.

After searching miles of waterway on Monday, crews had only found an empty stroller.

Lakewood Gulch is known as a hazard to flood and drainage engineers.

"That stretch there is no way out," said Bill DeGroot with the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District.

He says there are design plans to remedy the problem but there is no timeline yet for it to be implemented.

"The plan is to make it a lot wider, it would help with the flood depths and there would be a gradual slope of dirt and grass instead of a tall concrete wall along the path so that a person could easily walk out to safety," he said.

[yooperinco]

WOW!!! We didn't get even a drop of rain up here