GCSAR team rescues six stranded rafters from the Roaring Fork River

On Tuesday evening at 6:54 p.m., the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) was notified of four children and two adults whose raft had been pinned on a rock in the Roaring Fork River, about one mile below Ironbridge, near Glenwood Springs, CO. The raft was being held against the rock by the strong current associated with the high water run-off of the Roaring Fork River. Garfield County Search and Rescue (GCSAR) was called out by the GCSO, arrived on scene, and began operations to rescue the two adults and four children, ages 7, 9, 13, and 14 from the river,