{"id":1312041,"date":"2019-07-02T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=982830"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T22:30:48","slug":"breaking-inner-tubers-survive-overturning-in-colorado-river-at-glenwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/breaking-inner-tubers-survive-overturning-in-colorado-river-at-glenwood\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Inner tubers survive overturning in Colorado River at Glenwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.6094420600858\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-982830-238\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/20190702-20190702DSC_5315-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/20190702-20190702DSC_5315-1024x634.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent | A Garfield County Sheriff Officer stands and watches at the Glenwood Whitewater Park after three people fell from their inner tubes that overturned in the near-peak flows of the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs Tuesday afternoon.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>A Garfield County Sheriff Officer stands and watches at the Glenwood Whitewater Park after three people fell from their inner tubes that overturned in the near-peak flows of the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs Tuesday afternoon.<\/strong><br \/>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/20190702-20190702DSC_5315-1024x634.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/20190702-20190702DSC_5318-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/20190702-20190702DSC_5318-1024x754.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent | Members of the Glenwood Springs Fire Department prepare for a possible swift water rescue at the Glenwood Whitewater Park on Tuesday afternoon.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Members of the Glenwood Springs Fire Department prepare for a possible swift water rescue at the Glenwood Whitewater Park on Tuesday afternoon.<\/strong><br \/>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/07\/20190702-20190702DSC_5318-1024x754.jpg\" alt><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/breaking-inner-tubers-survive-overturning-in-colorado-river\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/breaking-inner-tubers-survive-overturning-in-colorado-river\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three people survived after their inner tubes overturned in the near-peak flows of the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds like there were two inner tubes tied together with three people on board,\u201d Glenwood Springs Fire Chief Gary Tillotson said.<\/p>\n<p>All three people, two men and a woman, made it to the shore without assistance within a half a mile of where the tubes overturned near Iron Mountain Hot Springs.<\/p>\n<p>They declined medical care when first responders, including the fire department and Glenwood Springs Police, arrived on scene shortly before 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Tillotson attributed their success in getting back to the shore to wearing life vests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least they were wearing personal flotation devices, which probably saved their lives in this case,\u201d Tillotson said.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the river near Iron Mountain is relatively flat, the tubes still ended up tipping the passengers into the river, which Tillotson said should be a warning about the dangers of tubing right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe river is just coming back down from peaking. Velocity is really high,\u201d Tillotson said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Geological Survey <a href=\"https:\/\/waterdata.usgs.gov\/co\/nwis\/uv\/?site_no=09085100&amp;PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060\">measurements<\/a> of the Colorado River below Glenwood Springs has the flow at 20,400 cubic feet per second Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:tphippen@postindependent.com\">tphippen@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/breaking-inner-tubers-survive-overturning-in-colorado-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Garfield County Sheriff Officer stands and watches at the Glenwood Whitewater Park after three people fell from their inner tubes that overturned in the near-peak flows of the Colorado River in Glenwood Springs Tuesday afternoon.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Members of the Glenwood Springs Fire Department prepare for a possible swift water rescue at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 00:23:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}