“I think part of it is that this year the all of the cards got dealt just perfectly to river has been pretty darn intimidating,” he end up with a tragic outcome. He was a said. “So the only people who are out there highly-skilled guy who was with another are the recreational boaters who are pretty highly-skilled guy. The circumstances just skilled, you know, your higher-level all stacked up right to have a bad kayakers or rafters. They’re outcome. But that’s not the trained and equipped and community we see much experienced enough in the way of problems to handle the river out of. They’re usually when it’s like this. able to handle what It’s been up and they run into—and rocking enough they’re not out that we really there boating by haven’t seen a themselves.” lot of kind of In fact, mom and dad Macaulay thinks grabbing the experienced kids and an river-goers make innertube to go the Truckee safer. jump in the river “I’ve been sort of thing.” doing this since John McNamara Macaulay said 1979, and I think we RFD battalion chief that for the time used to have more river being, those experienced rescue calls when there recreationists are the only were fewer people on the ones who belong on the river. river—because if somebody got Of course, some might argue that even in trouble there was nobody else out there experienced people should stay out, given to do the rescue,” he said. “With the more the recent death of an experienced kayaker. skilled boaters becoming more prevalent Macaulay doesn’t necessarily agree. in this area, I think a lot of the things that “That was an anomaly,” he said. “It’s would have turned into a major rescue rare that we see those really experienced event in the past are handled by the people boaters being the ones who get into who are already out there.” Ω trouble. It was one of those things where
“We are encouraging everybody to stay away from the river until the flow drops and it warms up a little bit.”
The wall
Techs prepared to dismantle a photo wall used by arriving alleged celebrities to pose for photographers at the Miss Teen USA pageant held in Reno last week. Four April-May events associated with both that pageant and the Miss USA pageant are being held in Reno, subsidized by $350,000 in local room taxes. The two pageants are owned by the Miss Universe Organization, now owned by the William Morris talent agency. Previous owners of the organization include ITT, Donald Trump and Gulf+Western. PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS
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