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Fall City, WA - Search-and-rescue officials have called off the search for the body of a 36-year-old Kirkland man who was presumed to have died after falling off a raft in the Snoqualmie River Monday evening.

Sgt. John Urquhart, a spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office, said conditions in the cold and swollen river are too dangerous for divers to continue the search effort.

The man had been inner-tubing with three friends south of Snoqualmie Falls when he fell off about 5:50 p.m. and could not climb back on.

The area was searched by the Sheriff's Office Marine Diver's Swift Water Rescue Unit and Eastside Fire Swift Water Rescue until dark.

Neither the missing man nor his friends were wearing life jackets or thermal protection gear, said Urquhart.

Urquhart said nearly all Western Washington rivers are running very high, very fast, very cold and very dangerous.



http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008028831_dige02m.html
 
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