{"id":111648,"date":"2021-03-20T18:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=111648"},"modified":"2021-03-20T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T01:33:23","slug":"idaho-rescue-teams-pull-couple-from-truck-dangling-above-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=111648","title":{"rendered":"IDAHO RESCUE TEAMS PULL COUPLE FROM TRUCK DANGLING ABOVE GORGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-111650 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IDAHO72-768x1024-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IDAHO72-768x1024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IDAHO72-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IDAHO72-768x1024-250x333.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>By Matt White<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Highly trained mountain rescue paramedics from around southern Idaho leaped into trucks, cars, and even a helicopter to retrieve a couple \u2014 and their two dogs \u2014 from the cab of a pickup truck dangling from a highway bridge over a mountain canyon Monday. The man and woman inside, both in their 60s, were pinned by their own seatbelts and helpless to escape as their truck hung from a single safety chain above a 100-foot plunge.<\/p>\n<p>After hitching a ride on a helicopter normally used for transporting critical patients, specially trained paramedics from the Twin Falls-based Magic Valley Special Operations and Rescue Team, or SORT, rappelled to the truck and brought both passengers and their dogs to safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truck was trying to pass somebody and they had bounced off one railing and went over the other side,\u201d Brandon Covey, the fire chief of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/goodingfiredistrict\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Gooding City Rural Fire Department<\/a>\u00a0told\u00a0<em>Coffee or Die Magazine<\/em>. \u201cThey were just dangling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Covey said, the 2004 four-door Ford F-350 \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edmunds.com\/ford\/f-350-super-duty\/2004\/features-specs\/\" rel=\"noopener\">a truck that used-car databases<\/a>\u00a0list as weighing at least 6,000 pounds \u2014 hung like a pendulum over the Malad River gorge, 100 feet below and about 30 miles north of Twin Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BZ Idaho First Responders- article and video here: <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeeordie.com\/idaho-rescue-truck\/\">Coffee Or Die<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt White Highly trained mountain rescue paramedics from around southern Idaho leaped into trucks, cars, &hellip; <a title=\"IDAHO RESCUE TEAMS PULL COUPLE FROM TRUCK DANGLING ABOVE GORGE\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=111648\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IDAHO RESCUE TEAMS PULL COUPLE FROM TRUCK DANGLING ABOVE GORGE<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bravo-zulu","category-first-responders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111652,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111648\/revisions\/111652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}