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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. |
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#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.' |
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