Accident Database

Report ID#67301

2004-03-07
accident date
Adam Bruna
victim
18
victim age
Smokey Hill
river
near Indian Rock Park, Salina
section
n/a
location
n/a
gage
Flood
water level
N/A
river difficulty
Swim into Strainer
cause code(s)
Does not Apply
injury type(s)
One Boat Trip
factors
Private
trip type
Raft
boat type
status?
status

Description

Early on the morning of March 7th two young men launched a small raft on the Smoky Hill River near Salina, Kansas. Neither was wearing a life vest even though the river was flooded and laden with debris. After their boat suddenly flipped one boy disappeared. The other was stranded on a mid-stream debris pile for about three hours. Firefighters used the current to lower a life vest to him, then sent a rescue swimmer out to grab him and bring him safely ashore. The second man, Adam Bruna, 18, was found several days later when the water receded. He was lodged under a logjam on the west bank of the river. The survivor, Raymond Jones, also 18, was hospitalized for three days for fatigue and hypothermia. http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/637676.htmlhttp://www.saljournal.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/4826/format/html/displaystory.html