Raft guide arrested after helping stranded rafter on Clear Creek

[BigBear]

Wait, wait... am I reading this right?

Recap: kid is in water. Guide jumps in water and recues kid (part of the job btw). Polics arrest guide because he got to kid first?

If I'm reading that right, the PD department needs their badges revoked....Idiots abound.

[ColoWyo]

Chances are the guides were Swift Water Rescue Certified as I was when I was a guide.

What a friggin joke.

[Wulf202]

Chances are the guides were Swift Water Rescue Certified as I was when I was a guide.

What a friggin joke.

They were certified

Wait, wait... am I reading this right?

Recap: kid is in water. Guide jumps in water and recues kid (part of the job btw). Polics arrest guide because he got to kid first?

If I'm reading that right, the PD department needs their badges revoked....Idiots abound.

Kid falls out of boat, the guides search for kid, can't find kid, call in SAR team, kid is spotted, team is setting up, guide can get to kid without issue but is told not to. Guide does it anyways because he's sick of seeing kid in distress while the team is setting up.

I grew up on a Dive rescue team's truck on the columbia in WA, the guide did the right thing.

The sheriff's email addy is in post #1