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Woman dies after falling into river at Yellowstone
Posted: Jul 28, 2010 5:15 PM by KXLH News (Helena)
Updated: Jul 28, 2010 5:20 PM
A 22-year-old woman has died after falling into the Firehole River near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park.
On Tuesday, Lin Ching-Ling, a Taiwanese national, was submerged for approximately five minutes before bystanders were able to pull her out of the water.
National Park Service rangers and a paramedic responded to the scene after receiving a call at approximately 1:35 p.m. reporting that a woman who had been submerged in the water.
A park visitor saw the woman on the bottom of the river, approximately 10 feet below the surface, and dove down to retrieve her. He then brought her to the water’s edge, yelled for help, and immediately began CPR.
A doctor and two nurses who happened to be in the area quickly took over CPR efforts. When park paramedics and rangers arrived, CPR was continued for about 40 minutes on-scene, when the patient regained a pulse.
She was then taken by ambulance to Madison Junction where a waiting helicopter transported her to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.
According to hospital officials, she was pronounced dead at 10:10 p.m.
This is the second water-related death at the park in recent weeks; a tourist from Iowa drowned on July 15th after falling into a river (read story).
