A 26-year-old Utah woman died after she fell 75-100 feet while hiking in Sevier County, according to police.
Candice Thompson, of Richfield, was hiking with her husband near an area known as the Bulls Head when she fell, according to the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office. Her husband called 911 “while running to try to get her,” police said.
Richfield City police officers and an off-duty sheriff’s deputy performed life-saving measures until EMTs and members of the search-and-rescue team arrived. According to a news release from the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, rescuers “were not able to get Candice’s vitals stable enough” to transport her in a medical helicopter that arrived at the site of her fall, so she was taken by ambulance to the Sevier Valley Hospital. Thompson died a short time later.
Police determined the fall was an accident. “Candice was at an edge of an overhang that was eroded away underneath,” which broke away, according the sheriff’s office.
According to witnesses, her husband was 20 feet uphill, and he “ran immediately to the edge looking for her” and “dialed 911 as he was scrambling down the ridge.”
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