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Off-duty soldier survives 70-foot fall from Kilauea volcano caldera
2019-05-03
HAWAII ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - A man was critically injured late Wednesday after climbing over a safety railing at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and falling 70 feet from Kilauea volcano’s 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

#1  According to the Daily Mail:

Officials said the soldier could face criminal charges, with a law enforcement official telling CNN that 'rangers will complete an investigation and make that determination after the investigation is over.'
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-05-03 11:49  

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