Crews Recover Pickup Below Salmon Falls Dam
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX)-Crews with the Twin Falls County Sheriff s Office and Twin Falls County Search and Rescue worked to retrieve a vehicle that fell into the Salmon Falls Creek Canyon in December killing two people.
The Twin Falls County Sheriff s Office shared images of the operation conducted on Saturday Jan. 2, at the Salmon Falls Creek Dam. On December 19, 2020 a Burley father and son were headed home from a camping trip in a pickup truck pulling a camp trailer when it hit a patch of ice just before crossing the dam and went over a barrier. 58-year-old Chris Patterson, and son, 18-year-old Nathaniel Patterson, were killed in the accident. A GoFundMe memorial fund has been set up for the two, find it HERE.