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Fish Creek search and rescue mission
Forty-year-old Rebecca Green, of Steamboat Springs, and her 8-year-old son, Kade, fell into Fish Creek below the upper falls Saturday. Kade suffered cuts on his head but was carried out by rescuers in stable condition. Green has been missing since going into the water at about 1 p.m.
Routt County Search and rescue volunteers, from left, Riley Polumbus, Jim Linville and Krista Check-Hill arrive at lower Fish Creek Falls. Three miles up the trail Steamboat Springs resident Rebecca Green and her 8-year-old son Kade have fallen into the raging creek.
Rescuers, from right, Jim Linville and Krista Check-Hill hike up the Fish Creek Falls trail with Fort Collins resident Andy Paratore, who saw Rebecca Green in the water.
Routt County Search and Rescue volunteer Jim Linville and Krista Check-Hill discuss their strategy for reaching Kade.
Routt County Search and Rescue volunteer Jim Linville reaches Kade Green, who had been waiting for help on a bank at Fish Creek.
Russ Sanford communicates with rescuers who have reached the boy across the creek.
Routt County Search and Rescue President Russ Sanford, left, talks to about rescue volunteer Bret Edgerton about the rescue while Scott Scherer removed branches from a tree to set up a rope system.
Rescuer Russ Sanford throws a line across Fish Creek.
Rescuer Scott Scherer works with the ropes.
Kade Green gives a thumbs up with rescuer Krista Check-Hill before being brought to the other side of the creek via rope line by rescuer Russ Sanford.
Routt County Search and Rescue President Russ Sanford takes Kade Green across Fish Creek.
Routt County Search and Rescue President Russ Sanford takes Kade Green, then 8, across Fish Creek on June 13, 2009 in a rescue mission. Search and Rescue is in the midst of its annual effort to recruit new volunteers.
Routt County Search and Rescue volunteers, from left, Matt Piva, Glen Hammond and Delbert Bostock carry Kade Green from the scene.
Rescuers Matt Piva, right, and Rick Lobato help bring Kade Green down from the upper falls.
Routt County Search and Rescue volunteer Glen Hammond checks Kade Green's vitals.
Routt County Search and Rescue volunteer Darrell Levingston talks to Kade Green's grandfather.
Kade Green is visited by his grandfather after Kade, 8, was rescued from alongside Fish Creek under the upper falls Saturday afternoon. Rescuers still are searching for Kade's mother, Rebecca Green, who fell in the water with Kade.
