A 19-year-old man survived falling 400 feet on some steep terrain under Mason County's High Steel Bridge
SHELTON, Wash. — A 19-year-old man narrowly escaped death in Mason County over Memorial Day weekend after falling down a 400-foot canyon., which says the man fell while trying to walk beneath the High Steel Bridge.
"Hooked him up into a harness and brought him all the way back up," said Fire Chief Matthew Welander of West Mason Fire. "He was walking down a washout that a lot of people use, and has kind of become a trail. It’s not a trail. It’s a washout, it’s too steep," said Welander."And ended up all the way down at the river, sliding.”"He was incredibly lucky," Welander said.
Like many areas with high bridges, rescuers respond to suicides from time to time, Welander said. But the vast majority,"is people monkeying around underneath the bridge where they think it's safe, they lose their footing, they slide and then they fall."
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