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SALT LAKE CITY—A man stuck upside-down in a cave for more than a day died early Thursday, despite the efforts of dozens of rescuers, authorities said.
John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park died about 12:30 a.m., nearly 28 hours after he became stuck 700 feet into the cave known as Nutty Putty, Utah County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Spencer Cannon said.
Rescuers were next to Jones for much of the day but he was wedged in a small hole too tightly to pull him out or even reach through to assist him, Cannon told The Associated Press.
The updates are good to keep abreast of the situation, I think we all have learned to take the media releases with a couple grains of salt. I guess some of the sarcastic/facetious/unsympathetic commenters of the news articles had a taste of irony shoved down their throats with this outcome.Ronal Kerbo wrote:... I should have known better than to post links to updates before all was completed.
Maria Villasenor wrote:...It was not an equipment failure, he explained Thursday morning, but a failure of the rock where the apparatus was anchored. Cannon said the rope system the rescuers used was highly reliable and included redundant parts for extra safety...
...The crevice was about 150 feet below ground in an L-shaped area of the cave known as "Bob's Push," which is only about 18 inches wide and 10 inches high, said Utah County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sgt. Spencer Cannon...
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