First responders helped rescue a boy Scout troop that had been stranded due to heavy flooding at their New Mexico camp.
The 16-strong group, which included nine adults and nine boys, was trapped for three days in heavy rains and rising waters.
Scouts set campfires ablaze to aid in their discovery.
“They were in a canyon that had sheer cliffs about 1,000 to 1,500-feet tall, so we actually didn’t have radio communication when we went into those canyons. There is no cell service,”Kurtus Tenerio is the hoist operator of the New Mexico State Police.
The rescue mission took 17 hours. Everyone was then taken to safety in a helicopter.
Flood waters are not to be missed with — even six inches of fast-moving water can knock a person off their feet.