5th wheeler going off road in Idaho.

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[Geo]

Testing his Air Brakes

 

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IDAHO RESCUE TEAMS PULL COUPLE FROM TRUCK DANGLING ABOVE GORGE​

FIRST RESPONDERS
By Matt White | March 18, 2021

Highly trained mountain rescue paramedics from around southern Idaho leaped into trucks, cars, and even a helicopter to retrieve a couple — and their two dogs — 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.
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.

“The truck was trying to pass somebody and they had bounced off one railing and went over the other side,” Brandon Covey, the fire chief of the Gooding City Rural Fire Department told Coffee or Die Magazine. “They were just dangling.”

Initially, Covey said, the 2004 four-door Ford F-350 — a truck that used-car databases list as weighing at least 6,000 pounds — hung like a pendulum over the Malad River gorge, 100 feet below and about 30 miles north of Twin Falls.

<Broken link removed>Photo courtesy of St. Luke’s Health, Idaho State Patrol, and Chief Brandon Covey.
According to Idaho State Police, one of its officers and a Gooding County sheriff’s deputy arrived within minutes of the crash and immediately secured the truck with towing chains from a passing 18-wheeler. The officers were also able to yell to the couple in the truck. The man, 67, and woman, 63, said they were alert and largely unhurt, as were their two Shih Tzu dogs. Police said the couple lives in Garden City, near Boise. Though both were secure in seatbelts, the man driving said the position of the belt was making it hard to breathe.

“He was being choked out by his seatbelt,” Covey said.

<Broken link removed>Photo courtesy of St. Luke’s Health, Idaho State Patrol, and Chief Brandon Covey.
But getting the couple and their dogs out would take more than just a few strong chains and heavy anchors. SORT teams from both Gooding and Twin Falls soon arrived and began setting up the complicated rope systems needed to lower paramedics to the cab. The Twin Falls team is one of the most active backcountry rescue squads in the West, with frequent high-angle rescues in the high canyons around the Snake River. A team spokesperson said the squad trains at least twice every month, and Monday’s rescue was its sixth callout of 2021.

 

[Sundowners]

Sorry, have to correct your title, it looks as though it’s a travel trailer as no sign of fifth wheel coupling. Still scary though, glad it was them and not us.

 

[Vipar]

Glad the couple were ok

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[cmcardle75]

Testing his Air Brakes

Testing his underpants more like.