A woman is in critical condition after she was was pulled from Boulder Creek in the 400 block of Arapahoe Avenue on Thursday, according to officials.
Around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Boulder Fire-Rescue responded to a call for a water rescue after a woman was seen floating unconscious near Eben Fine Park.
First responders and bystanders worked together to pull the woman from the creek, at which point first aid was administered before she was rushed to the hospital. She remains in critical condition.
Stuart Boyce, who lives nearby, said he saw two men go into the water and fight against the current to retrieve the woman who at that point was hung up on a rock. The two men then dragged her over to Boyce’s deck. Search and rescue showed up shortly after and immediately brought a line across the creek to take the woman back across to an ambulance on the creek path. Boyce said he observed the water levels as being, “high and running fast.”
This is the second incident of a person being pulled from Boulder Creek in the last week. , 9, died after falling off of his tube into the creek on Sunday. Water levels remain high, but the the cubic feet per second levels, which must be at 700 or above, are not high enough for mandatory closure.
At approximately 3:30pm today BFR & and received a call for a water rescue in the creek. Numerous first responders searched different locations along the bank until they saw bystanders who worked with first responders to pull the adult woman out of the water 1/2
— Boulder Fire-Rescue (@boulder_fire)
