Mbhs #: 0302.2
Year: 1953
Date: 19 Jan 1953
First Row: Cole Rivers, rescuer (hand on head), Norman Kubli, rescued, Nate Smith, rescuer (back to camera), and Lance Offenbacher (beaming smile)
Source: Rogue River Courier
Event/Activity: Flood rescue
Notes: Lance & Wesley Offenbacher were using poles to free their private bridge from flood debris "when the structure went out about 4:30pm." Wes made it to shore but Lance floated with the bridge 3/4 miles downstream. Robert Darting, Normal Kubli and Tom Pittick tried to reach Lance but their boat was wrecked in the swirling waters around 6:30pm. Cole Rivers, biologist for the State Game Commission, brought Offenbacher and Kubli out of the river at 9:15pm. Darting & Pittick were perched in trees. Pres & Sid Pyle, river guides, got ropes to the stranded men and they were rescued at 10:35pm.
