GOLDEN — A 17-year-old boy is lucky a lost bird delayed the man who pulled him to safety.
“Just feel really lucky right now,” Ryan Evans, who was pulled from the creek, said Thursday.
Matthew Mulica, 29, a Denver Water employee, was tubing down Clear Creek on Tuesday night when he saw a boy floating facedown in the water. Mulica got Evans to shore and administered CPR.
Evans said he was trying to cross Clear Creek when he slipped and hit his head on a rock.
“All I could see is like pictures of my family in my mind, and then I kinda felt myself dying,” he said.
Mulica said he never would have been there if he hadn’t been delayed earlier. He had spotted a gosling separated from its mother by a fence and stopped to help reunite the geese before continuing downriver.
