Rescue 911 - Episode 104 - "River Raft"

Firefighters try to save a rafter trapped in the hydraulics at the base of a flooded dam. This segment was taken from Episode 104 which aired on September 26, 1989 on CBS.

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[pnoninu]

Why would they go river rafting when the water is that high and dangerous.But im glad there both all right.-katie

[EAJ1987]

The water fall by a dam of that type is extremely dangerous, if you get caught under that waterfall, the water pressure could keep you under. Those 2 just pulled the most stupid idea I've ever seen.

[OneSkiWonder]

@allgood2000 Do you have the episode where a young boy fell into a river and was hanging on a pipe at the dam's intake and was rescued by a man in a row boat?

[super58173]

@EAJ1987 - Well, those people were damned.

[OnTheRunSinceBirth]

To me in those days a mullet was shaved hair on the side real long in the back . A person with long hair was just that a person with long hair and not a mullet.

[njones513]

rodney is ma uncle haha he is crazy

[00rosey1]

I know both of these idiots,and they are just as stupid now as they were then.

[GlennMagusHarvey]

It's interesting and quite appropriate that you misspelled "dam" as "damn", I must say.

[raymondvbarger]

People try to go on that river it seems every year. During an excerise to train to save lives one of the emt got injured recently. It is not the biggest but it is truly powerful when you get to that damn

[allgood2000]

They may have. There was another segment that aired in 1989 where a helicopter used an infrared camera (flir) to chase a burglar through a neighborhood at night. I think that stuff was new back then though.

[adorianvlad]

this episode was aired on September 26, 1989

i don't think they had the technology back then for any of the helicopters.

BTW, the river may not look that huge, it has an immense power and its scary too.

[allgood2000]

No, but it does seem like it had a lot of water segments. It had one about a stabbing and one about organ transplants. Episode 519 seems the most like a water themed episode. There was a crash into a ditch, a diving accident, a barracuda attack, and a swimming pool drowning.