PROSPECT, Ore. (AP) — Searchers were out at first light Friday looking for a man who fell into a roaring stretch of the Rogue River in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon.
Jackson County sheriff’s spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says the 21-year-old man was visiting family members in the area. He was with a group of about 8 people at a pullout off Highway 62 just northwest of Union Creek Resort late Thursday afternoon when he fell in and was swept away.
The river is very fast there, swollen with snowmelt, and quickly flows over a falls into the Rogue River Gorge, a dangerous stretch filled with boulders and lava tubes.
Carlson says about 30 searchers walked the river with powerful lanterns until late Thursday night.
