So today I had to call 911 for some rafters who ran into trouble on the Bow River.

Technically I wasn’t the only one who called 911 – people further up the river who had witnessed the raft capsize had called first, as I learned later – but the people who had been dumped by the raft were moving REALLY FAST down the river and were yelling for help as they were passing where I was walking, so I called 911 just in case no one had done it yet.

Bystander effect, right?

Anyway, I think I was able to help a little bit, because I was able to tell the operator approximately where the people were in the river (based on the street I was by) and give an idea of how fast they were moving so that rescue could possibly intercept them.

And completely unrelated: I was perhaps the most dehydrated I’ve ever been by the end of my walk today. I didn’t bring enough water and our heat wave is starting to pick up today, so that was fun.

Edit: pic of the raft that had caught on the bridge by Edworthy Park. It doesn’t show up very well in the pic, but the water was REALLY moving.