Search for missing kayaker along Willamette River continues; 911 call came from homeless camp
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Authorities say a 911 call from a person living at a homeless encampment along the river alerted them that a kayaker was struggling against the current near Willamette Falls on Saturday night.
"As the call taker was on the phone with the reporting party, they were describing him paddling and struggling, and then describing him going over the falls," said Sergeant Nate Thompson with Clackmas Co Sheriff’s Office.
Thompson said so far the search for the 20-year-old missing kayaker from California has only yielded his empty blue kayak seven and a half miles downstream at Elk Rock Island.
"Just before going over the falls, the male actually jumped out of the kayak, attempted to swim," Thompson said. "They witnessed the kayak go over the falls and then they witnessed the male go over the falls. After that, there was no other sightings."
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