On Monday, July 3, 2023 at 6:03:42 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
On Monday, July 3, 2023 at 11:36:24 AM UTC-7, George Anthony wrote:
in the Portland area. Been to Multnomah falls several times. What a
tragic thing to happen.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-father-5-dies-falling-multnomah-falls-trail/
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NAGA Democrats are destroying the United States of America.
This just makes it sadder. The Benson bridge is the bridge you see in all the photos of the falls. The path is fairly wide and well paved there. Around 2 million people stop there every year to look at the falls. Every now and then one of them gets
lost and/or falls off a cliff. Most of them make it further from the parking lot.
"Alcohol was a likely factor in the death of a hiker on Saturday near Multnomah Falls.
The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office says 41-year-old Gerardo Hernandez-Rodriguez, his wife and five children were hiking past the Benson Bridge near the first switchback when he stumbled and fell down an embankment and over a cliff. He fell 200-feet.
A Sheriff's deputy found his body at the base of the cliff.
Investigators say alcohol impairment was a likely contributing factor to the accident."
https://1190kex.iheart.com/featured/portland-local-news/content/2023-07-03-alcohol-contributing-factor-in-fatal-fall/
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"'I tried to save him': Family grieves loss of father that fell 200 feet while hiking at Multnomah Falls
Gerardo Hernandez-Rodriguez, 41, stumbled and fell to his death from a hiking trail at Multnomah Falls Saturday. He leaves behind five kids and his soon-to-be wife."
"BEAVERTON, Ore. — A Beaverton family continues to grieve the loss of their father after he fell nearly 200 feet to his death from a hiking trail at Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge Saturday afternoon.
Gerardo Hernandez- Rodriguez, 41, was hiking on the trail beyond the Benson Bridge near the first switchback when he stumbled and fell down an embankment.
Hernandez- Rodriguez had planned to visit the coast with his family over the Fourth of July holiday. And in October, he planned to marry his long-term relationship partner and mother of his children.
But on Saturday the 41-year-old's life was cut short after falling to his death.
"We see my little brother, running toward us, like crying and panicking," Hernandez-Rodriguez’s daughter Mayra Hernandez said.
Multnomah County Sheriff’s officials said alcohol likely played a factor in the fall. But in an email, officials said they couldn’t determine his blood alcohol level because that would require a toxicology report. They stated deputies determined
alcohol was a factor based on statements that Hernandez-Rodriguez had drank heavily Friday night and Saturday morning.
But his family thinks he may have suffered a heart attack or cardiac arrest.
"My brother told me like, 'I tried to save him, I really tried to save him but I couldn't," Hernandez said.
She said heart medicine pills were found in her father’s backpack after his death. His family didn’t know he had heart issues."
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/beaverton-family-grieves-father-fell-death-multnomah-falls-hike/283-ba8ce2cc-3b9e-4f6d-b0ac-6a0cf8285cd5
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