Rafter Recovering After Going Overboard In San Miguel River
TELLURIDE, Colo. (AP) — A Texas rafter is recovering after being rescued from the cold waters of the San Miguel River near Telluride.
The San Miguel Sheriff's Office says the 52-year-old woman from a small town near Houston was one of four passengers on a commercial raft that hit a rock and went overboard Tuesday. The others were quickly pulled back into the boat. But the woman was in the water for about 10 minutes and was unconscious when she lifted out of the river, which is running high like many around the state because of the spring snow melt.
She stopped breathing but started again after the guide performed CPR. She regained consciousness and was taken to the hospital after the other passengers called 911 from a home near the river.
Her name and her hometown weren't released.
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