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SALT LAKE CITY Rescue crews scrambled Thursday to free a man stuck upside-down in a popular Utah cave for well over 24 hours.
John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park, became stuck about 700 feet into the narrow cave, known as Nutty Putty, at about 9 p.m. Tuesday while spelunking with a group of about 11 people, according to the Utah County sheriff's department.
He was still wedged in at 1 a.m. Thursday and rescuers were working through the night to free him, said Sgt. Spencer Cannon.
"As long as he's still in there, we'll have people trying to get him out," Cannon told The Associated Press.
He said as many as 50 rescuers were on the scene about 80 miles south of Salt Lake City and several of them were down in the cave near Jones.
The crevice where Jones is trapped, with his head below his feet, is about 150 feet below ground in an L-shaped area of the cave known as "Bob's Push," which is only about 18 inches wide and 10 inches high, Cannon said.
The process was slow Wednesday with rescuers chipping away with air-powered tools in the arrow tunnel.
At one point late in the afternoon, Jones was freed from the crevice, only to fall back several feet into the tight space when a cord that was supporting him failed, Cannon said
Rescuers were able to get him food and water during that temporary freedom. But by early Thursday morning, he had been stuck in the cave for well over 24 hours, and rescue crews remained uncertain how long it would take to get him out.
"He's not in great shape," Cannon told The Salt Lake Tribune.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_re_us/us_cave_rescue
John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park, became stuck about 700 feet into the narrow cave, known as Nutty Putty, at about 9 p.m. Tuesday while spelunking with a group of about 11 people, according to the Utah County sheriff's department.
He was still wedged in at 1 a.m. Thursday and rescuers were working through the night to free him, said Sgt. Spencer Cannon.
"As long as he's still in there, we'll have people trying to get him out," Cannon told The Associated Press.
He said as many as 50 rescuers were on the scene about 80 miles south of Salt Lake City and several of them were down in the cave near Jones.
The crevice where Jones is trapped, with his head below his feet, is about 150 feet below ground in an L-shaped area of the cave known as "Bob's Push," which is only about 18 inches wide and 10 inches high, Cannon said.
The process was slow Wednesday with rescuers chipping away with air-powered tools in the arrow tunnel.
At one point late in the afternoon, Jones was freed from the crevice, only to fall back several feet into the tight space when a cord that was supporting him failed, Cannon said
Rescuers were able to get him food and water during that temporary freedom. But by early Thursday morning, he had been stuck in the cave for well over 24 hours, and rescue crews remained uncertain how long it would take to get him out.
"He's not in great shape," Cannon told The Salt Lake Tribune.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_re_us/us_cave_rescue
