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1. Whitefish Kayaker Misses Take- Out, Ends Up in Idaho
A Whitefish kayaker is safe after float- ing past his take-out on the Kootenai River and ending up in Idaho.
At 7:18 p.m. July 16, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received a report that a 68-year-old man had failed to get out of the river with the rest of his party near the Yaak River Campground north- west of Troy. A family member said the man, later identified as Alan Lee Priebe, was hard of hearing and was floating to Idaho by himself.
The sheriff’s office organized a search team with David Thompson Search and Rescue, Idaho’s Boundary County Sher- iff’s Office and the U.S. Forest Service, whose employees started searching for the man from a firefighting helicopter. Authorities also contacted BNSF Rail- way so that their employees could watch for the man along the tracks.
Two hours after the incident was reported, Priebe’s boat was found beached at the Leonia Bridge on the Mon- tana – Idaho border. Two hours after that, authorities in Idaho learned that Priebe was safe and was hitching a ride back to the campground. They later determined that he had beached the kayak and then hiked 10 miles on a back road before find- ing some campers who gave him a ride into Bonners Ferry.
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2. Man Dies After Fall from Trail Near Yaak River
A 45-year-old Troy man apparently stumbled on an unmaintained trail up the West Fork of the Yaak River before tum- bling 35 feet to his death on July 18, accord- ing to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
Jesse Christopher Lowry was walking on the steep trail in sandals, Sheriff Roby Bowe reported, before losing his balance and falling off the trail. He fell approx- imately 35 feet to a hard rock surface. Bowe reported that alcohol appeared to be a factor in the fall.
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Lincoln County Dispatch received the call about the fall on July 18 at 6:50 p.m. The reporting party said a man had fallen off a cliff about three miles up the West Fork of the Yaak. The person who called left the scene to make the call, while Low- ry’s girlfriend stayed back with him.
Arriving responders found that Lowry was already deceased.
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3. Teen Says She Tried to Save Step- Grandparents in Plane Crash
The teenager who survived a small plane crash in Washington’s Cascade Mountains says she burned herself try- ing to pull her step-grandparents from the burning wreckage.
Autumn Veatch told NBC News there was zero visibility before the July 11 acci- dent, and then “it was all trees and then it was fire.”
Authorities have said the plane entered a cloud bank before the crash.
Veatch said after the crash her step-grandparents,LelandandSharon Bowman, of Marion, were trapped. She said she couldn’t get to Sharon Bow- man but burned her hand trying to free Leland.
Before she fled she says she told the Bowmans that “I loved them and that it would be OK.”
The 16-year-old Veatch survived the impact and was able to hike to safety.
Two bodies were recovered from the crash site, but authorities said that the fiery crash has made the identification difficult. Veatch has confirmed it was the Bowmans who were killed.
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4. Sheriff IDs Man Found in Burned House
The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office has identified the 57-year-old man killed in an Evergreen fire on July 18.
Sheriff Chuck Curry said Howard Wayne Poier was the sole occupant in the house, located on Rose Crossing, when it burned at about 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
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