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Long Beach [CA] firefighter, another rock climber found dead in Riverside County
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Posted on 09/29/2022 8:07:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Rescuers were called around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday to Tahquitz Rock near Idyllwild following a distress call, the Cal Fire/Riverside County Fire Department said on Twitter.

A team managed to climb into the steep, remote area and found both the climbers dead at the scene, the department said.

While one climber remains unidentified, multiple reports and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department have identified the other climber as Long Beach firefighter and former NFL player Gavin Escobar.

Tahquitz Rock, with its steep granite cliffs, is a popular destination for climbers.

Two climbers from Los Angeles fell 200 feet (60 meters) to their deaths on the rock in 2000...

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: climbing; escobar; nfl; rockclimbing; tahquitz; tahquitzrock
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To: Myrddin

The last person to die from the plague in the U.S. was here.
I have been successful in dispatching all the ground squirrels, they really pissed me off when they got into the garden.


21 posted on 09/30/2022 8:56:13 AM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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My wife is a master falconer. On one of her hunting trips, her Red Tail took a ground squirrel. It was infected with plague. She and the bird both needed treatment. Fortunately it wasn't a hot strain and was treatable.
22 posted on 10/01/2022 7:28:38 PM PDT by Myrddin
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