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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — A 15-month-old child who fell into Butcherknife Creek this morning is in critical condition at The Children’s Hospital in Denver, police say.
Police responded to a report of a missing child at 10:51 a.m., Police Capt. Joel Rae said.
It appears that the child fell into the creek near the alley between Oak and Pine streets and between Sixth and Seventh streets. The child was pulled out by his grandfather behind the Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant about 400 feet downstream. From there, the creek goes underground traveling below Lincoln Avenue before daylighting at the Ghost Ranch Saloon near the Yampa River.
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