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Bend Fire & Bend Police Rescue Two Teens Stranded On Rocks In Deschutes River

BEND, OR -- Bend Fire Department rescued stranded rafters off a rock on the Deschutes River, below Sunrise Village yesterday afternoon. Two juveniles got stranded on a rock in the river after one of them fell out of their raft and the other attempted to help. Bend Fire and Police crews were dispatched to both sides of the river to make access. A rope and raft system were put into place and fire fighters were able to safely remove them from the rock and deliver them back to their parents. The section of river they were in has rapids and is just upriver from waterfalls and the canal intake.

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