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Off-duty soldier survives 70-foot fall from Kilauea volcano caldera
The 32-year-old man was pulled from the caldera about 9:40 p.m. On Thursday, he’d been upgraded to stable condition. Army officials said he is a Schofield Barracks soldier who was on the Big Island as part of a unit on a training mission at Pohakuloa. Ben Hayes, acting park spokesman and chief of interpretation, said another visitor saw the man fall from the 300-foot cliff about 6:30 p.m. and immediately alerted authorities. Hayes said the man fell after climbing over a permanent metal railing at the Steaming Bluff overlook to get a better vantage point. That’s when the ground underneath him apparently gave way. Remarkably, rather than plummeting to the caldera’s floor, the man fell about 70 feet and landed on a narrow ledge. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-05-03 |
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